Vocab Set #1
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- Electorate
- All persons having the right to vote.
- Posthumous
- Coming after death.
- Analogy
- A likeness between different things; a similarity; a comparison.
- Asserted
- To express or state positively; to defend or claim.
- Elite
- Suitable for a select group; a group or part of a group regarded as the best, most skilled, most powerful, etc.
- Evolved
- To develop gradually by process of growth and change.
- Contemptuous
- Showing or feeling scorn.
- Paternal
- Inherited from or related through one's father; fatherly.
- Acquittal
- A setting free by judgement of a court; a release from a duty, obligation, etc.
- Excerpt
- A selected passage or scene from a literary work or piece of music; an extract; to take out or select passages; to quote
- Mentor
- A wise and trusted teacher; a counselor.
- Heresy
- A belief different from the accepted doctrine.
- Notoreity
- Fame, usually in an unfavorable sense.
- Ethical
- Pertaining to right and wrong; conforming to certain rules or standards; moral.
- Prophetic
- Relating to someone or something that foretells events.
- Inarticulate
- Unable to speak understandably or effectively or to use words; unable to say what one thinks.
- Antiquity
- Ancient times; a thing or people of ancient times; the quality of being ancient.
- Pauper
- A person who is very poor, especially one dependent upon public charity.
- Condescended
- To stoop to do something you think is unworthy of you.
- Fortitude
- Patient courage in facing pain or danger; moral strength; endurance