English Midterm
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Terms
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- homage
- respect or reverence paid or rendered
- deign
- condescend
- paramount
- chief in importance or impact
- altruism
- the principle of unselfish concern of the welfare of others
- inviolable
- prohibiting violation, secure from destruction
- omniscient
- having complete or unlimited knowledge
- demure
- chracterized by shyness and modesty; reserved
- decandent
- characterised by wealthiness, little morals
- alienate
- to make indifferent or hostile
- adept
- very skilled, proficient
- vestment
- a garment, esp. outer garment, offical robe
- demagogue
- policitical leader who gains power and popularity by using the crowd's emotions
- contentious
- tending to argument or strife, quarrelsome
- clamber
- to climb with difficulty/effort
- devoid
- to deplete or strip somethign of quality or substance
- schism
- division or disunion
- peevish
- showing annoyance, irritation or bad mood
- dour
- sullen, gloomy; severe, stern
- hecatomb
- a public sacrifice to the gods, any great slaughter
- pugnacious
- inclined to quarrel or fight readily
- arbitrate
- decide between opposing or contending parties/sides
- anarchy
- society without government or law
- hackneyed
- made commonplace or trite
- caprice
- a sudden, unpredictable change
- effervescent
- bubbling, lively
- bisect
- to cut into two equal parts
- haughty
- snobbish, disdainfully proud
- expedient
- proper under the circumstance
- exemplary
- worthy of imitation, commendable
- vertex
- the highest point of something, summit
- acrimonious
- caustic stinging or bitter in nature, speech or behavior
- ode
- a lyric poem
- vortex
- a whirling mass of water
- assimilate
- to take in and incorporate as one's own, absorb
- ordination
- the ceremony of consecration to the ministry
- affable
- friendly, cordial, warmly polite
- allele
- part of a gene, for hereditary variation
- penitent
- atoning for wrongdoing
- advocate
- to speak or write in favor of, support
- heretical
- characteristics of heresay or heretics
- concord
- agreement between two sides/people
- dichtomous
- divided or dividing into parts
- sanctimonious
- making a hypocritical show of religious devotion
- aesthetic
- having a sense of the beautiful
- literacy
- the state of being literate
- usurp
- to seize and hold a position by force
- deft
- dexterous, skillful
- surplice
- a loose-fitting, broad-sleeved white vestment
- exalt
- to raise in rank, honor, power, character, quality etc.
- artifact
- an olod handmade object found at an archaeologicial excavation
- parody
- a humorous imitation of a seriosu piece of writting
- incumbent
- holding a indicated position or role, currently
- adorn
- to decorate or add beauty to, with ornaments
- congruent
- agreeing, the same
- memoir
- a record of events written by a person with intimate knowledge
- reactionary
- opposing political or social change