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Dooley's Vocab 19-21
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Feeling or showing a lack of interest, concern, or emotion; indifferent; unresponsive | apathetic |
| a. To declare or distinguish as holy; to make sacred for religious use b. To make venerable or worthy of reverence; to hallow c. To dedicate solemnly to a service or a goal | consecrate |
| A code, system, or statement of beliefs; a creed | credo |
| Grossly wicked or evil; abominable | heinous |
| An ungrateful person | ingrate |
| a. Religious reverence; earnestness in religious matters; devoutness b. Devotion to parents and family c. Possessing a strict sense of morality; high-minded | piety |
| Extremely irreverent or disrespectful toward what is considered sacred | sacriliegious |
| False righteousness; hypocritical devoutness or high-mindedness | sanctimony |
| Sacredness; holiness of life or disposition | sanctity |
| Full of fear or apprehensiveness; timid | timorous |
| a. Destructively or frenetically violent b. Mentally or emotionally upset; damaged | berserk |
| a. A specially celebrated anniversary, particularly a fiftieth anniversary b. A season or an occasion of joyful celebration | jubilee |
| a. An overwhelming, advancing force that crushes or seems to crush everything in its path b. Something, such as a belief or institution, that elicits blind and destructive devotion or to which people are ruthlessly sacrificed. | juggernaut |
| a. To kneel, touching the head to the ground in an expression of deep respect, worship, or submission, as formerly done in China b. To show servile submission; to fawn | kowtow |
| a. A violent or turbulent situation b. A whirlpool of extraordinary size or violence | maelstrom |
| a. A place that is regarded as the center of an activity or interest b. A place visited by many people | mecca |
| A wealthy and prominent person | nabob |
| a. A prose epic with many episodes, often giving a family history b. A long, detailed account | saga |
| a. A word or pronunciation that distinguishes people of one group or class from those of another b. A commonplace saying or idea | shibboleth |
| a. To make a slow, difficult journey; to journey on foot b. A journey or leg of a journey, especially if slow and difficult | trek |
| To leap or dance about in high spirits | cavort |
| To send forth; to emit or exude | emanate |
| a. To follow a winding and turning course b. To move aimlessly and idly without a fixed direction; to wander | meander |
| To return to an earlier, inferior, or less complex condition; to go or move backward | retrogress |
| Snakelike; resembling a snake in form or movement | serpentine |
| To replace or supplant; to displace as inferior | supersede |
| a. Inactive or apathetic; lethargic; sluggish b. Deprived of the power of movement or feeling ; numbed | torpid |
| Existing or lasting only a short while; temporary; short-lived | transitory |
| To move with a smooth, wavelike motion | undulate |
| Never letting up or lessening; persistent | unremitting |
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