Lesson 37&38 Religious Words

Question 1

Apostate

Answer 1

(n.) a person who rejects or abandons a strongly held belief

Question 2

Sanctimonious

Answer 2

(adj.) pretending to be religious and holy, but doing so as a pretext to look down on others

Question 3

Iconoclast

Answer 3

(n.) one who defies convention in a striking fashion

Question 4

Agnostic

Answer 4

(n.) one who is uncertain whether there is a higher power

Question 5

Sacrilege

Answer 5

(n.) violation of something considered holy

Question 6

Inviolate

Answer 6

(adj.) pure, not violated or profaned

Question 7

Catholic

Answer 7

(adj.) universal

Question 8

Novitiate

Answer 8

(n.) a person new to a religious order, or any beginner in general

Question 9

Hagiography

Answer 9

(n.) traditionally a biography of a saint, but today any writing that praises highly to the point of worship

Question 10

Syncretic

Answer 10

(adj.) describing the fusion of several different beliefs

Question 11

Desecrate

Answer 11

(v.) to violate something considered holy

Question 12

Ecclesiastical

Answer 12

(adj.) relating to a church or clergy

Question 13

Priggish

Answer 13

(adj.) sanctimonious

Question 14

Anathema

Answer 14

(n.) an official curse against a person; someone or something intensely disliked

Question 15

Ecumenical

Answer 15

(adj.) aimed at uniting many different churches