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Eschatology

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Eschatology (ˌe-skə-ˈtä-lə-jē): a branch of theology concerned with the final events of the world

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Eschatological

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Eschatological (es·cad·uh·ˈlog·i·cal): concerned with the end of the world

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Esthete

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Esthete (es·theet; rhymes with feat): [aesthete] a person having, or pretending to have, an appreciation of art and beauty

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Exegetical

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Exegetical (ˌek-sə-ˈjet-ti-kəl): a critical explanation of a text

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Fulguration

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Fulguration (ful·guh·ˈray·shən): a flash; like that of lightning

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Ganymede

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Ganymede (ˈga-nah-ˌmēd; rhymes with ‘can’): a beautiful youth abducted by Zeus to be his cupbearer

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Geist

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Geist (giset): spirit, ghost

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Hermeneutic

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Hermeneutic (ˌhər-mə-ˈnü-tik): a method of interpreting texts and the ways they are understood

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Hiatic

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Hiatic (high-attic): relating to a hiatus

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Hypostatize

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Hypostatize (hy·ˈpos·ta·tize): to embody; to attribute concrete reality to a concept

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Ich

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Ich (not “ick” not “ish”, but ‘Ick+hiss of cat’): the ‘I’

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Ich bin

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Ich bin (ich ben): the ‘I am’

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Immanence

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Immanence (ˈim·ma·nence): the opposite of transcendence; the divine manifested in the material world

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Immanent

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Immanent (ˈi-mə-nənt): innate, indwelling

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Immure

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Immure (uh·myur): to confine someone against their will, even to imprison, i.e. ‘he was immured in an asylum’

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Incommensurable

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Incommensurable (ˌin-kə-ˈmen-sir-rə-bəl): two things that cannot be compared

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Interdict

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Interdict (in·ter·dict): to prohibit some thing

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Interdictory

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Interdictory (ˌin-tər-ˈdik-tə-rē): prohibited

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Inveigle

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Inveigle (in·vei·gle): to win over by flattery or coaxing

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Irenic

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Irenic (i-ˈren-ic): something favorable or leading toward peace

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Loki

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Loki (low-kee): a trickster; Norse god of destruction

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Loquacity

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Loquacity (lō-ˈkwa-sə-tē): talkativeness

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Maieutic

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Maieutic (muh-ˈyou-dick): Socratic inquiry to bring ideas into clear consciousness

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Mutatis mutandis

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Mutatis mutandis (mu·ta·tis mu·tan·dis): When comparing two things, and after the necessary alterations have been made, the main point is still valid

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Nisse

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Nisse (Knee-sah): a Santa Claus-like creature in Nordic folklore