Lesson 16 Modern Meanings

Question 1

monomania

Answer 1

exaggerated or obsessive enthusiasm for or preoccupation with one thing

Question 2

monolithic

Answer 2

formed of a single large block of stone

Question 3

Decalogue

Answer 3

the 10 commandments

Question 4

Deuteronomy

Answer 4

the fifth book of the Bible, containing a recapitulation of the Ten Commandments and much of the Mosaic law.

Question 5

ditheism

Answer 5

a belief in two gods, especially as independent and opposed principles of good and evil.

Question 6

Heptateuch

Answer 6

the first seven books of the Bible (Genesis to Judges) collectively

Question 7

Hexateuch

Answer 7

the first six books of the Bible (Genesis to Joshua) collectively

Question 8

Monophysite

Answer 8

a person who holds that in the person of Jesus Christ there is only one nature (wholly divine or only subordinately human), not two

Question 9

Pentateuch

Answer 9

the first five books of the Hebrew Bible (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy)

Question 10

protomartyr

Answer 10

the first martyr for a cause, especially the first Christian martyr, St. Stephen

Question 11

tetrarch

Answer 11

the governor of one of four divisions of a country or province

Question 12

tritheism

Answer 12

the doctrine of or belief in the three persons of the Trinity as three distinct gods.