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Honors W History 9
Chapter 14 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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patron | financial supporter of arts |
humanism | intellectual movement on worldly subjects |
humanities | subjects taught to Greeks and Romans |
perspective | painting appears 3D by sizing objects |
engraving | etching a design on metal plate with acid |
vernacular | everyday language |
utopian | ideal society |
indulgence | lessening time in purgatory |
recant | give up view |
predestination | God determined long ago who gets saved |
theocracy | government rule by church leaders |
annul | cancel |
canonize | recognize as saint |
compromise | agreement |
scapegoat | someone to blame |
ghetto | separate part of a city |
heliocentric | sun is center |
hypothesis | possible explanation |
scientific method | step-by-step process of discovery |
gravity | force that keeps planets in orbit around sun |