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Eng Mid Term
English Mid-term Vocab
| definition | word |
|---|---|
| resembly someone, usually a young person, thi a thin fragile appearance who looks needy | waiflike |
| the quality associated with being god, a god, or goddess | divinity |
| to burden or weigh down somebody or something; to hamper or impede | encumber |
| not important | insignificant |
| the belief that personal communication or unioin with the divine is achieved through intuition, faith, ecstasy, or sudden insight rather than through reational thought | mysticism |
| not emotional; unaffected by emotional matters | in a permissive, tolerant, way such as to humor somebody's wishes |
| action that causes someting especially an important process or event, to begin | initiation |
| firmly held belief | conviction |
| large vehicles or transporting goods by road | lorries |
| somebody who has been or is waiting to be deported | deportee |
| somebody who supports or advocates a system of government characterized by dictatorship, centralized control of private enterprize, repression, of all opposition, and extreme nationalism | fascist |
| an area of a city lived in by a minority group, especially a run-down and densely populated area lived in by a group that experiences discrimination | ghetto |
| a short personal account of an incident or event | ancedote |
| provoking or expressing feelings of pity | pathetic |
| a baton carried as a symbol of rand or authority; a police officer's club | truncheon |
| in a random, haphazord, or confused manner | indiscriminately |
| the forcing out of something or somebody from something | expulsion |
| to steal goods using force, especially during a war | pillage |