Vocabulary - Unit5 Definitions
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- Agnostic
- One who holds that the existence of God is unknown and unknowable; one who asserts that all claims to knowledge are uncertain.
- Anathema
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A person or thing accursed or consigned to damnation; a formal ecclesiastical curse or ban.
A person or thing greatly detested.
A curse or imprecation generally. - Caustic
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Capable of burning, corroding, or destroying tissue by chemical action.
Cutting or sarcastic in utterance. - Criterion
- A test or standard by which something is judged.
- Deleterious
- Physically or morally harmful.
- Demagogue
- A leader who appeals to the emotions and prejudices of the populace in order to obtain power.
- Epithet
- A name or title used to describe or characterize a person or thing.
- Idiosyncrasy
- A temperament peculiar to an individual; any person peculiarity or mannerism.
- Panace
- A supposed remedy for all diseases or ills.
- Plethora
- Excess; superabundance.
- Pseudonym
- A fictitious name, as one assumed by an author.
- Sporadic
- Occurring in occasional or isolated instances.