Vocabulary unit 2 Flashcards
Reflect
- Think profoundly
* Meditate
Journey
- Trip to reach something
* Has a focus on the experience going
Retreat
• Go to a place to meditate
Custom
• Habit
Commemorate
• Celebrate
Dedication
• Do something with passion
Memorial
• Present respect to something
Experience
• Moments you have to go through to get knowledge
Goal
• An objective
Accomplishment
• Objective that has been achieved
Adventure
• Action of taking a risk
Traditional
• Rutinary/common habit
Destination
• Place to arrive
Memento
• A souvenir
Rite
- Ritual
* Group of activities/events
Searing
- Extremely hot or intense.
* Severely critical.
Catharsis
• The process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.
Prompt
- (Of an event or fact) cause or bring about (an action or feeling).
- Bring about/cause
Paramount
- more important than anything else
* Supreme.
Sheer
• Nothing other than; unmitigated (used for emphasis).
Secular
• denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis.
Coveted
• Great desired or envied.
Dissuade
• Persuade (someone) not to take a particular course of action.
Earnest
• Resulting from or showing sincere and intense conviction.