Key vocabulary Flashcards
Benevolent
All loving and kind
Contumacy
stubborn refusal to obey authority
Equivocation
use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth
Misogynist
person who dislikes and is strongly prejudice against women.
omnipotent
all powerful
omniscient
all knowing
Patriarchy
system of society or government where men are head and only decent through male lines.
Polemical
involving strongly critical writings or speeches.
Prelapsarian
before the fall of man, innocent
Pyschomachia
conflict withing the soul or between the soul and body
Secular
not connected with religious or spiritual matters
Sententious
given to moralising in a pompous manner
Theology
study of the nature of god and religious belief
Tragic hero
literary hero who has a fatal flaw
Transcendant
beyond or above the range of normal or physical human experience