1-2 lessons vocab
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- heresy
- a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion
- paternal
- relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent
- posthumous
- occurring or coming into existence after a person's death
- excerpt
- a passage selected from a larger work
- electorate
- the body of enfranchised citizens
- late
- unable to speak understandably
- acquittal
- a setting free by judgment of a court
- notoriety
- fame, usually in an unfavorable sense
- antiquity
- an artifact surviving from the past
- elite
- f or suitable for a select group
- prophetic
- foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention
- evolved
- to develop gradually by process of growth and change
- paupers
- a person who is very poor
- analogy
- an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others
- mentor
- a wise and trustd person
- condescended
- to stoop to do somthing you think is unworthy of you
- contemptuous
- showing or feeling scorn
- asserted
- to express or state positively
- ethical
- of or relating to the philosophical study of ethics
- fortitude
- patient courage in facing pain or danger, moral strength, endurance