Religious Words (Parts 1 & 2)

Question 1

Apostate

Answer 1

A person who rejects or abandons a strongly held belief.

Question 2

Sanctimonious

Answer 2

Pretending to be religious and holy, but doing so as a pretext to look down on others.

Question 3

Iconoclast

Answer 3

One who defies convention in a striking fashion.

Question 4

Agnostic

Answer 4

One who is uncertain whether there is a higher power.

Question 5

Sacrilege

Answer 5

Violation of something considered holy.

Question 6

Inviolate

Answer 6

Pure, not violated or profaned.

Question 7

Catholic

Answer 7

Universal.

Question 8

Novitiate

Answer 8

A person new to a religious order, or any beginner in general.

Question 9

Hagiography

Answer 9

Traditionally a biography of a saint, but today any writing that praises highly to the point of worship.

Question 10

Syncretic

Answer 10

Describing the fusion of several different beliefs.

Question 11

Desecrate

Answer 11

To violate something considered holy.

Question 12

Ecclesiastical

Answer 12

Relating to a church or the clergy.

Question 13

Priggish

Answer 13

Sanctimonious.

Question 14

Anathema

Answer 14

An official curse against a person; someone or something intensely disliked.

Question 15

Ecumenical

Answer 15

Aimed at uniting many different churches.