| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Abrogate | to repeat or end |
| Abscond | to steel away and hide |
| Affront | to insult or verbally attack |
| Degrade | to put down |
| Expunge | to get rid of |
| Fealty | loyalty |
| Feudal | relating to the feudal system |
| Impropriety | rudeness |
| Salutary | healthful, wholesome |
| Vapid | lifeless, dull |
| Canon | body of ecclesiastic law |
| Catholic | general, universal |
| Celibate | one who abstains from sex |
| Curate | member of the clergy |
| Exculpate | to free from blame, vindicate |
| hero | mother is a vigin, circumstances of his conception are unusual, at birth some attempt is made to kill him, spirited away and reared by foster parents, know nothing of childhood, upon reaching manhood he returns to his future kingdom, kills wild beast, marries princess and becomes king, loses favor with gods, mysterious death(on top of hill), body is not burried |
| scapegoat | an animal or more usually a human whose death in a public ceremony expiates some taint or sin that has been visited upon a community |
| outcast | a figure who is banished from a social group for some crime against his fellow man. usually destined to become a wanderer from place to place |
| devil figure | evil incarnate, this character offers worldly goods, fame, knowledge to protagonist in exchange for possession of his soul |
| earth mother | symbolic of fruition, abundance, and fertility; this character offers spiritual and emotional nourishment to those with whom she comes in contact |
| temptress | characterized by sensuous beauty, this woman is one to whom the protagonist is physically attracted and who ultimately brings about his downfall |
| platonic idea | this woman is source of inspiration and spiritual idea, for whom the protagonist or author has an intellectual rather than a physical attraction |
| unfaithful wife | a woman, married to a man she sees as a dull and unimaginative, is physically attracted to a more virile and desireable man |
| star crossed lovers | a young man and woman enter an ill-fated love affair which ends tragically in teh death of either or both of the lovers |
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