| Term | Definition |
|---|
| abet | assist usually in doing something wrong; encourage |
| abnegation | self-sacrifice |
| abrasive | rubbing away, tending to grind down |
| acerbity | bitterness of speech and temper |
| acetic | vinegary |
| acrimonious | stinging, bitter in words or manner |
| cognizance | knowledge |
| elucidate | enlighten, explain |
| eschew | to abstain or keep away from |
| incipient | beginning, in an early stage |
| pejorative | negative in connotation, having a belittling effect |
| plethora | overabundance, excess |
| reticent | not talking much, reserved |
| retrospective | looking back on the past |
| slake | quench |
| stratagem | deceptive scheme |
| tendentious | having an aim, a tendency, biased |
| tenuous | thin; rare |
| thwart | baffle, frustrate |
| polytheism | the teaching that there are many gods |
| panentheism | the belief that all of creation is in God, but does not make up the sum total of what God is. |
| Naturalism | the belief that all of human experience and events can be explained from causes that are purely natural and open to scientific understanding and explanation |
| pantheism | the view that God is in everything and everyone and that everyone and everything is God |
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