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List 5
List 5 for Ms. Ferguson's Honors
| Vocab Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abstruse | profound, obscure, hard to understand, recondite |
| Acolyte | an altar boy, attendant or young assistant |
| Acumen | keen intelligence, sharp insight |
| Adumbrate | to outline vaguely, to foreshadow, to suggest or intimate |
| Agnostic | a person who thinks it is impossible to know whether there is a God or an afterlife or anything beyong material phenomena |
| Ambiguous | having two or more possible meanings, vague |
| Astute | shrewd |
| Benison | a blessing |
| Blasphemy | irreverence; mocking abuse of God or anything regarded as sacred |
| Celibate | unmarried individual (and therefore sexually chaste) esp. one under religious vow |
| Chalice | a cup, goblet |
| Cherubic | angelic, chubby and rosy-cheeked like a chold |
| Consecrate | to make holy, to devote or dedicate |
| Delineate | to describe; portray, draw or sketch out (in a picture or words) |
| Desecrate | to violate the sacredness of, to profane |
| Diabolic | fiendishly wicked or cruel; like a devil |
| Discerning | having keen insight, astute |
| Equivocal | deliberately vague or ambiguous |
| Esoteric | Understood by only a chosen few |
| Espouse | to marry, to support or advocate |
| Ethereal | not earthly, heavenly, very light, airy, delicate |
| Fetish | anything held in unreasoning devotion |
| Hallow | to make or regard as holy, to consecrate |
| Heresy | any opinion opposed to established views or doctrines, esp. religious beliefs |
| Homily | a sermon |
| Impious | irreverent |
| imponderable | incapable or being weighed or measured |
| ineffable | too overwhelming or sacred to be expressed, described or uttered |
| inscrutable | incomprehensible, mysterious, enigmatic |
| laity | all the people not belonging to any particular profession by esp. said of the non-clergy; laymen collectively |
| mesmerize | to hypnotize |
| nebulous | cloudy, unclear, vague, indefinite |
| necromancy | black magic, sometime involving communication with the dead |
| nuptial | relating to marriage or a wedding |
| omniscient | all knowing |
| paradox | a statement that seems contradictory or absurd but may be true |
| perspicuous | acute, discerning, keen |
| prelude | an introduction, especially in music |
| proselyte | a convert, usually from one religion to another |
| recondite | beyond the understanding of the average person, abstruse |
| sanctity | holiness, sacredness, inviolability |
| sacerdotal | of or pertaining to priests or priesthood |
| sacrilegious | disrespectful of things held sacred, irreverent |
| sagacity | penetrating intelligence and sound judgement |
| sanctimonious | pretending to be very pious, hypocritical |
| secular | not connected with a church or religion, of the world, temporal |
| talisman | magic charm |
| temporal | temporary, transitory, of this world, wordly |
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