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Vocab Week 4
Question | Answer |
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Altruist | a person unselfishly concerned for or devoted to the welfare of others (opposed to egoist). |
Egoist | a self-centered or selfish person (opposed to altruist). |
Chauvinist | a person who believes one gender is superior to the other, as a male chauvinist or a female chauvinist. |
Liberal | noting or pertaining to a political party advocating measures of progressive political reform. |
Epicurean | fond of or adapted to luxury or indulgence in sensual pleasures; having luxurious tastes or habits, especially in eating and drinking. |
Atheist | a person who denies or disbelieves the existence of a supreme being or beings. |
Agnostic | a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience. |
Stoic | of or relating to the school of philosophy founded by Zeno, who taught that people should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity. |
Jingoist | to love war |
Fatalist | the acceptance of all things and events as inevitable; submission to fate: |
Conservative | disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change. |