Chapter 1, National Experiance
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- Elicit
- evoke or draw out (a response, answer, or fact) from someone in reaction to one's own actions or questions
- Cleric
- a priest or minister of a Christian church
- Chronicler
- A person who records events.
- Envisaged
- contemplate or conceive of as a possibility or a desirable future event
- Veracity
- conformity to facts; accuracy.or habitual truthfulness
- Sanctioned
- give official permission or approval for (an action)
- Ecclesiastical
- of or relating to the Christian Church or its clergy
- Prevail
- prove more powerful than opposing forces; be victorious
- Dissipate
- disperse or scatter or to squander or fritter away
- Succumbed
- fail to resist (pressure, temptation, or some other negative force)
- Propagated
- cause (something) to increase in number or amount. 2. spread and promote
- Pluralism
- ⬢ a political theory or system of power-sharing among a number of political parties.
- Moors
- a tract of open uncultivated upland; a heath.2. member of a northwestern African Muslim people
- Aztecs
- a member of the American Indian people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century.
- Inquisition
- a period of prolonged and intensive questioning or investigation
- Esquire
- a title appended to a lawyer's surname.
- Trinity
- a group of three people or things
- League
- a collection of people, countries, or groups that combine for a particular purpose
- Heathen
- a person who does not belong to a widely held religion
- Nomadic
- a member of a people having no permanent abode
- Annuity
- a fixed sum of money paid to someone each year, typically for the rest of their life
- Reconnoitering
- exploring in order to gain information
- Monolithic
- formed of a single large block of stone.
- Confiscated
- take or seize (someone's property) with authority
- Covertly
- not openly acknowledged or displayed. Noun. a shelter or hiding place.
- Adherents
- someone who supports a particular party, person, or set of ideas
- Repudiation
- refuse to accept or be associated with
- Assayers
- determine the content or quality
- Bullion
- gold or silver in bulk before coining, or valued by weight.
- Unpalatable
- not pleasant to taste.
- Vintners
- a wine merchant.
- Cupidity
- greed for money or possessions
- Perculation
- embezzle or steal.
- Sporadic
- occurring at irregular intervals or only in a few places;
- Exodus
- the second book of the Bible, which recounts the departure of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt
- Transcendent
- beyond or above the range of normal or merely physical human experience
- Purging
- rid (someone) of an unwanted feeling, memory, or condition, typically giving a sense of cathartic release
- intractable
- hard to control or deal with
- Sedition
- conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.
- Elucidating
- make (something) clear; explain
- Blasphemy
- the act or offense of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things; profane talk
- Omnipotent
- having unlimited power; able to do anything.
- Belie
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(of an appearance) fail to give a true notion or impression of
2 fail to fulfill or justify - Infractions
- a violation or infringement of a law, agreement, or set of rules.
- Zeal
- great energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or an objective
- Eloquence
- fluent or persuasive speaking or writing
- Denunciations
- public condemnation of someone or something.
- Mercentilism
- The state directed all economic activities within its borders subordinating private profit public good.