Great Divorce Vocab List
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- Allegory
- an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances
- Fate
- an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
- Destiny
- an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
- Freedom
- the condition of being free
- English Renaissance
- Age of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Edmund Spenser, Elizabethan reign provided stability
- Holy
- belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine power
- Ingratitude
- a lack of gratitude
- Sacrifice
- the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity
- Sulkily
- in a sulky manner
- Tragedian
- a writer (especially a playwright) who writes tragedies
- Holiest
- Belonging to, derived from, or associated with a divine power; sacred
- Wet blanket
- someone who spoils the pleasure of others
- Idiotic
- completely devoid of wisdom or good sense
- Spirit
- animation and energy in action or expression
- Wicked
- intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality
- Grandeur
- the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand
- Blake
- visionary British poet and painter (1757-1827)
- Tact
- consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offence
- Presuppositions
- Initial starting belief of a person that determines their viewpoint concerning the origin of life
- Reverie
- absent-minded dreaming while awake
- Scribe
- someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts
- Fable
- a short moral story (often with animal characters)
- Patience
- good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
- Ghost
- the visible disembodied soul of a dead person
- Survival
- a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
- Satan
- (Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God
- Pride
- unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- Theologian
- someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology (especially Christian theology)
- Literary Criticism
- the informed analysis and evaluation of literature
- Ferocity
- the property of being wild or turbulent
- Grumble
- a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone
- Queue
- (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted
- Meditation
- continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature
- Gaunt
- very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
- Secular
- concerning those not members of the clergy
- Eternal
- continuing forever or indefinitely
- Teacher
- a personified abstraction that teaches
- Mountain
- a land mass that projects well above its surroundings
- Medieval
- as if belonging to the Middle Ages
- Paradise Lost
- Milton, 1665, study of destructive qualities of pride, redeeming possibilities of humility
- John Milton
- English poet
- Cheroot
- a cigar with both ends cut flat
- Inhuman
- without compunction or human feeling
- Theology
- the learned profession acquired by specialized courses in religion (usually taught at a college or seminary)
- Predestination
- (theology) being determined in advance