Vocab Page 80-117 Flashcards
defeatist
A person who surrenders quickly or gives up hope easily,
My friend is a defeatist
console
To give comfort, to alleviate their grief.
I went to console her
nuptial
of or related to a marriage; wedding
a nuptial chamber was built, I plan nuptials
carnal
of or related to crude bodily appetites, corporeal or sexual, needs
I have a carnal desire
resignation
an attitude of acceptance towards hardship or calamity,
I shrug in resignation
initiation
the process admitting someone into a selecitve and often secret group through a formal ritual or ceremony.
to join our group you must do the initation
flagellate
to punish by wipping
People will flagellate themselves and others
secular
Not affiliated with any particular religion;
my old school was secular
bearable
Endurable, sufferable, livable,
THE PAIN IS BARABLE
ideology
supporting/following a polictal, economic, or religious worldview.
I have a liberal ideology
belligerent
Hostile and combative
People were belligerent