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Week 2 pt. 2 screwta
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Communicant | a person who partakes or is entitled to partake of the Eucharist(Holy Communion); a member of a church |
| Asphyxiating | To cause or lose consciousness by impairing normal breathing, as by gas or other noxious agents; choke; suffocate; smother. |
| Barbarous | uncivilized; wild; savage; crude. |
| Connoisseur | A person who is especially competent to pass critical judgments in an art, particularly one of the fine arts, or in matters of taste. |
| Platitudes | A flat, dull, or trite remark, especially one uttered as if it were fresh or profound |
| Ingrained | firmly fixed; deep-rooted; inveterate |
| Congregational | pertaining or adhering to a form of Protestant church government in which each local church acts as an independent, self-governing body |
| Insipid | without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid |
| Malice | Desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness |
| Genuflecting | to bend the knee or touch one knee to the floor in reverence or worship |
| Sole Colbert | French way of cooking Dover sloe(fish) with a parsley putter |
| Unmitigated | Not softened or lessened |
| Eulogies | speech or writing in praise of a person or thing, especially a set oration in honor of a deceased person. |
| Rhetorical | Marked by or tending to use exaggerated language or bombast. |
| Wanton | Done, shown, used, Etc., Maliciously or unjustifiably |