English Vocab Semester 1 Flashcards
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Suavely
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Smooth in texture, performance, or style
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Gilded
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Covered or tinged with gold or a golden color
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Masonry
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Something constructed of materials used by masons (those who work with stone and bricks)
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Posterity
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All future generations
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Ardent
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Characterized by warmth of feeling typically expressed in eager zealous support or activity
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Disdain
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A feeling of contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior
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Harbor
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To give shelter or refuge to
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Pretense
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A display of emotion or behavior that is insincere or intended to deceive
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Clad
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To be covered or clothed
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Convert
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To alter the physical or chemical nature or properties of especially in manufacturing
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Lurk
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To lie in wait in a place of concealment especially for an evil purpose
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Shamefast
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Archaic form of shamefaced; showing modesty or shame
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Countenance
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A look or expression, usually facial, that indicates a particular mood or emotion
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Weening
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Holding an opinion, imagining
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Colossal
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Of a bulk, extent, power, or effect approaching or suggesting the stupendous or incredible
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Harlot
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A prostitute
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Unerring
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Committing no error
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Friction
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The force that resists relative motion between two bodies in contact
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Dislocation
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An act or instance of the order of things being distributed
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Remission
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Release from the guilt or penalty of an offense
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Languid
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Drooping or flagging or as if from exhaustion
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Timorous
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Of a timid of fearful disposition
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Philanthropic
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Dispensing or receiving aid from funds set aside for humanitarian purposes
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Amiable
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Friendly, sociable
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Gaunt
Excessively thin and angular
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Indolence
Inclination to laziness
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Sharecrop
To tenant, a process in which a tenant farmed is provided with credit for seeds, tools, living quarters, and food. The farmer work the land, but doe not own it, an receives an agreed share of the value of the crop minus charges. This practice was especially prevalent in the U.S South during the Reconstructive and the early part of the twentieth century
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Lattice
A framework or structure of crossed wood or metal strips
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Thrum
To sound with a monotonous hum
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Conjuring
To summon by or as if invocation or incantation
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Lilting
Characterized by a rhythmical swing or cadence; cheerful, buoyant
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Aloof
Removed or distant either physically or emotionally
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Surfeited
Having an overabundant supply, an excess
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Meticulous
Marked by extreme or excessive care in the consideration or treatment of details
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Effigy
An image or representation especially of a person
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Menagerie
A strange or diverse collection of people or things
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Placidly
In a serene manner, free from interruption or disturbance
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Nettle
To arouse to sharp but transitory annoyance or anger
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Incessant
Continuing or following without interruption
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Discordant
1) Harsh and jarring because of lack of harmony
2) Disagreeing or incongruous
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Retch
To vomit
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Sheath
To case or cover with something that protects
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Avert
To turn away or aside (the eyes, one's gaze, ect.) in avoidance; to avoid
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Omniscent
Having infinite awareness, understanding, and insight
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Impede
To interfere or slow the progress of
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Bailiff
An official employed by a British sheriff to serve writs and make arrests and executions; a minor officer of some U.S courts usually serving as a messenger or usher
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Magnanimous
Showing or suggesting a loft and courageous spirit; showing or suggesting nobility of feeling and generosity of mind
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Catechism
Oral instruction; a manual for catechizing; a set of formal questions put as a test; something resembling a catechism especially in being a rote response or formulaic statement
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Decrepit
Wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age; worn-out; fallen into ruin or despair
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Impertinence
The quality or state of being impertinent; such incivility, insolence (rudeness), or irrelevance or inappropriateness; an instance of impertinence
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Antiquarian
Of or relating to antiquarians or antiques
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Terrestrial
Of or relating to the earth of its inhabitants; mundane in scope to character (prosaic); of or relating to a land as distinct from air or water
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Ingenuous
Showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness; lacking craft or subtlety
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Sidereal
Of, relating to, or expressed in relation to starts or constellations (astral)
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Papal
Of or relating to a pope or to the Roman Catholic Church; resembling a pope or that of a pope
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Proliferate
INTRANSITIVE VERB: to grow by rapid production of new parts, cells, buds, or offspring; to increase in numbers as if by proliferating (multiply); TRANSITIVE VERB: to cause to grow by proliferating; to cause to increase in number or extent as if by proliferating
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Hermetic
Relating to or characterized by subjects that are mysterious and difficult to understand
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Frivolity
The quality or state of being frivolous; that is, lacking in seriousness; a frivolous act or thing
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Providential
Of, or relating to, or determined by Providence, divine guidance or care, or God conceived as the power sustaining and guiding human destiny
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Haughty
Blatantly and disdainfully proud; having or showing an attitude of superiority and contempt for people or things perceived to be inferior
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Deign
To condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved; stoop
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Homage
Expression of high regard; something that shows respect to the worth of influence of another
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Formidable
Causing fear, dread, or apprehension; having qualities that discourage approach or attack; tending to inspire awe or wonder
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Rumination
The process or an instance of going over in the mind repeatedly or chewing again what has been chewed slightly and swallowed
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Prevalent
Generally or widely accepted, practiced, or favored
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Smote
Past tense of smite: to strike sharply or heavily especially, with the hand or an implement held in the hand
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Affable
Being pleasant and at ease in talking to other; characterized by ease and friendliness
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Sporadic
Occurring occasionally, singly, or in irregular or random instances
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Moue
A little grimace, pout
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Querulous
Habitually complaining; fretful, whining
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Haggard
Wild in appearance; having a worn or emaciated appearance, gaunt
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Auspicious
Showing or suggesting that future success is likely
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Translucent
Permitting the passage of light; transmitting and diffusing light so that objects beyond cannot be seen clearly
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Viscosity
The quality or state of being a sticky or glutinous consistency
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Pillager
One engaged in the act of looting or plundering especially in war
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Chuff
To produce noisy exhaust or exhalations
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Argus
A hundred-eyed monster of Greek mythology; a watchful guardian
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Ramshackle
Appearing ready to collapse; carelessly or loosely constructed
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Talisman
An object held to act as a charm to avert evil and bring good fortune
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Trestle
A braced frame serving as a support; a braced framework of timbers, piles, or steelwork for carrying a road or railroad over a depression
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Windigo
A cannibalistic creature of Algonquian mythology believed to have been a lost hunter forced by hunger to eat human flesh and thereafter to have become a crazed man-eating ogre roaming the forest
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Mottled
Marked with spots of different colors; having blotches of two or more colors
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Iridescent
Having or exhibiting iridescence, that is, a lustrous or attractive quality or effect
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Veneer
A thin sheet of a material, such as a layer of wood of superior value or excellent grain to be glued to an inferior wood; a superficial or deceptively attractive appearance, display, or effect
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Throes
Pangs, spasms; a hard or painful struggle
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Kamikaze
Of, relating to, or resembling a kamikaze--a member of a Japanese air attack corps in World War II assigned to make a suicidal crash on a target (such as a ship)--or, having or showing reckless disregard for safety or personal welfare
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Mantilla
A light scarf worn over the head and shoulders especially by Spanish and Latin American women
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Shroud
Burial garment; something that covers, screens, or guards
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Pernicious
Highly injurious or destructive, deadly
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Prim
Stiffly formal and proper; decorous; prudish; neat or trim
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Proteus
A Greek sea god capable of assuming different forms
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Metamorphose
Transitive verb: to change into a different physical form especially by supernatural means; intransitive verb: to become transformed
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Confound
To throw (a person) into confusion or perplexity; to baffle, frustrate
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Oscillate
To swing backward and forward like a pendulum
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Desultory
Marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose; disappointing in progress, performance, or quality
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Stasis
A state of static balance or equilibrium
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Solemnity
Formal or ceremonious observance of an occasion or event
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Penitent
A person who repents a sin
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Inviolable
Secure from violation or profanation; secure from assault or trespass
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Sullen
Gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed
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Jaundiced
Affected with or as if with jaundice (yellowish pigmentation of the skin, tissues, and body fluids caused by the deposition of bile pigments); exhibiting or influenced by envy, distaste, or hostility
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Console
To alleviate the grief, sense of loss, or trouble of
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Taunt
Having no give or slack; tightly drawn
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Effeminate
Having feminine qualities untypical of a man; not manly in appearance or manner
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Fastidious
Showing or demanding excessive delicacy or care; reflecting a meticulous, sensitive, or demanding attitude
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Pugnacious
Having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent
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Sanctum
A sacred place
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Diffuse
To pour out and permit or cause to spread freely; to spread thinly or wastefully
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Conjecture
Inference from defective or presumptive evidence; a conclusion deduced by surmise or guesswork
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Mien
Air or bearing especially as expressive of attitude or personality
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Incredulous
Unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous
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Jurisdiction
The power, right, or authority to interpret and apply the law
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Tangible
Capable of being perceived especially by the sense of touch
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Promenade
To walk about in or on
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Temerity
Unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition
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Brazen
Made of brass; sounding harsh and loud like struck brass; of the color of polished brass; marked by shameless or disrespectful boldness
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Caper
A frolicsome leap; a capricious escapade
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Disposition
Prevailing tendency, mood, or inclination
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Fractious
Tending to be troublesome : unruly
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Decorum
Propriety and good taste in conduct or appearance
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Ponderous
Unwieldy or clumsy because of weight and size
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Coquetry
A flirtatious act or attitude
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Chasten
To correct by punishment or suffering; discipline
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Rejoin
To say often or critically in response especially as a reply to a reply
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Promontory
A high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water to overlooking or projecting into a lowland
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Confidant
One to whom secrets are entrusted
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Counterpane
Bedspread
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Dissolution
Decay, disintegration, as aspect of death
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Refract
To alter or distort as if by refraction, deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (as air) into another (as glass) in which its velocity is different
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Transfiguration
An exalting, glorifying, or spiritual change
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Transient
Passing especially quickly into and out of existence; passing through or by a place with only a brief stay or sojourn
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Sacrilege
Gross irreverence toward a hallowed person, place, or thing
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Insensate
Lacking sense or understanding; lacking animate awareness or sensation
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Seraph
One of the six-winged angels standing in the presence of God
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Transmutation
The conversion of base metals into gold or silver
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Lout
An aggressive person lacking in manners and refinement
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Vagrant
One who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support
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Gluttonous
Marked or given to excess in eating or drinking
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Defile
To make unclean or impure
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Insolent
Insultingly contemptuous in speech or conduct
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Absolution
The act of forgiving someone for having done something wrong or sinful; specifically a remission of sins pronounced by a priest
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Edict
A proclamation having force of law
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Prostrate
To stretch out with face on the ground in adoration or submission, or to put oneself into a physical position of humility or submission
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Contrition
The state of feeling or showing sorrow and remorse for a sin or shortcoming
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Ignoble
Characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness
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Consecration
The act or state of being dedicated to a sacred purpose
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Pious
Marked by or showing honor and respect for deity and devotion to divine worship. The noun from of pious is piety.
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Fraternize
To associate or mingle as brothers or on fraternal terms
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Fervently
Exhibiting or marked by great intensity of feeling
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Renounce
To give up, refuse, or resign usually by formal declaration
