Things Fall apart Vocab 2
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BSRC, PHUHS IB class of '13, Bradley English I A1/2, PHUHS IB 2013
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 adherent | a supporter, as of a cause or individual |
| affirmation | assertion; something declared to be true; a positive statement or judgment |
| atonement | amends or reparation (repair) made for an injury or wrong; expiation; reconciliation or an instance of reconciliation between God and humans |
| beget | to father; sire; to cause to exist or occur; produce |
| benevolent | characterized by or suggestive of doing good; of, concerned with, or organized for the benefit of charity |
| bereaved | to leave desolate or alone, especially by death |
| blaspheme | to speak of (God or a sacred entity) in an irreverent, impious (disrespectful) manner; to revile; execrate |
| callow | lacking adult maturity or experience; immature |
| degenerate | having declined, as in function or nature, from a former or original state; having fallen to an inferior or undesirable state, especially in mental or moral qualities |
| derisive | mocking; jeering |
| desecrate | to violate the sacredness of; profane |
| diffuse | to pour out and cause to spread freely; to spread about or scatter; disseminate; to make less brilliant; soften |
| discordant | not being in accord; conflicting; disagreeable in sound; harsh or dissonant |
| emanation | to come or seem to come from someone or something,something that issues from a source; an emission |
| enthralled | to hold spellbound; captivate; to enslave |
| evangelism | zealous (enthusiastic) preaching and dissemination (spreading) of the gospel |
| ferment | something, such as a yeast, bacterium, mold, or enzyme, that causes fermentation, to cause to get irritated or excited |
| harbinger | one that indicates or foreshadows what is to come; a forerunner |
| imminent | about to occur; impending |
| fetish | an object that is believed to have magical or spiritual powers, especially such an object associated with animistic or shamanistic religious practices; an object of unreasonably excessive attention or reverence; an abnormally obsessive preoccupation or attachment; a fixation |
| Impotent | lacking physical strength or vigor; weak; Lacking in power, as to act effectively; helpless; sterile |
| inadvertent | not duly (appropriately) attentive; marked by unintentional lack of care (careless) |
| irreparable | impossible to fix, rectify, or amend |
| lamentation | the act of complaining; a complaint |
| mean | a medium or average; low in quality or grade; inferior; low in value or amount |
| miscreant | an evildoer; a villain; an infidel; a heretic |
| molest | to disturb or annoy |
| ominous | menacing; threatening; of or being an omen (a sign), especially an evil one |
| orator | one who delivers an oration (a formal speech); an eloquent and skilled public speaker |
| ostracize | to exclude from a group; to banish by the temporary banishment by popular vote of a citizen considered dangerous to the state |
| pacification | the act of making peaceful, appeasement; reduction to peaceful submission; policies aiming to effect this type of submission; a peace treaty |
| resilient | marked by the ability to recover readily, as from misfortune; capable of returning to an original shape or position, as after having been compressed (flexible) |
| rite | the form for conducting a religious ceremony; a ceremonial act; the practice of the Christian church |
| superfluous | being beyond what is required or sufficient |
| tremulous | marked by quivering, or shaking; timid or fearful; timorous |
| tumult | the commotion of a big crowd; a disorderly commotion or disturbance; a tempestuous uprising; a riot; agitation of the mind or emotions |
| zeal | enthusiastic devotion to a cause, ideal, or goal and tireless diligence in its furtherance |
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