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History 2.1
Vocab.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ascetic | person who denies himself pleasures and comforts |
| deify | to make a god of, worship as a god |
| diffuse | scatter widely, spread out to cover a large space or surface |
| ideographic | having to do with ideographs, which are characters or symbols that represent things |
| metaphysics | the branch of philosophy that tries to explain the real nature of things |
| paternalistic | managing the affairs of a country or group of employess as a father manages the affairs of his children |
| rajah | ruler of chief in India |
| subcontinet | large land mass that is still smaller than a continent |
| theosophy | any religious or philosophical system claiming to have insight into the divine nature through spiritual self-development |