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| Don Quixote | hero of Cervantes’ novel of the same name; an impractical idealist bent on righting incorrigible wrongs |
| Transcendence | Lying beyond the ordinary range of perception; being beyond the limits of experience and hence unknowable and unattainable |
| Plane tree | type of tree frequently planted in urban landscaping |
| Philologist | a scholar specializing in languages or literary study |
| Lexicon | a wordbook or dictionary, especially of Greek, Latin or Hebrew |
| Zeus | Greek god known for his interactions with humans |
| Milkweed | Any of numerous plants having milky juice and pods that split open to release seeds with downy tufts. |
| Fulcrum | pivot or turning point |
| Sublimity | Of high spiritual, moral, or intellectual worth; not to be excelled; supreme. |
| Insubstantiality | lacking substance or reality |
| Concreteness | Existing in reality or in real experience; perceptible by the senses |
| Temporality | state of being bounded by or subject to time |
| Celestial | relating to the sky or heavens |
| Terrestrial | earthly |
| Mundane | typical of the everyday world; secular, not divine; ordinary |
| apocalypse | prophetic revelation concerning a cataclysm in which the forces of good triumph over the forces of evil. |
| Prosaic | ordinary, not poetic or metaphoric |
| Metaphoric | figurative, not literal |
| Oxymoron | A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined |
| Vocative | a grammatical case to indicate the person or thing being addressed in a noun of direct address or apostrophe |
| Incantatory | characterized by verbal repetition or utterance, especially when used as a kind of verbal charm or spell |
| Litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite |
