CA Vocab 2
chapters 12-16
Terms
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- philanthropy
- active effort to improve the human condition
- atypical
- unusual
- apolitical
- not interested in politics
- empirical
- based on observation or experiment
- bland
- mild
- dogma
- beliefs considered by the church to be true
- aphorism
- brief statements of an opinion
- atheism
- the belief that there is no god
- imponderable
- incapable of being evaluated exactly
- perpetual
- lasting indefinetely
- repudiate
- to reject the validity of
- therapeutic
- serving to heal
- adamant
- stubbornly unyielding
- erudite
- exceptionally learned
- panthion
- a temple dedicated to all gods
- premier
- first in importance
- combustion
- the process of burning
- gastronomic
- relating to the art of good eating
- amoral
- not concerned with right and wrong
- solidified
- to make strong
- anarchy
- political state of disorder
- brook
- tolerate
- propagation
- the process of spreading or reproducing
- theological
- relating to the study of the nature of God
- condiment
- something used to season food
- skepticism
- doubting attitude
- autocrat
- a ruler with unlimited power
- elixir
- a remedy to cure all ailments
- abyss
- very deep, apparently bottomless hole
- interred
- bury
- anthropomorphism
- the attributing of human characteristics to inanimat objects
- impunity
- freedom from harm
- theocracy
- a government ruled by religious authority
- comtemplative
- characterized by thoughtful observation or study
- anemia
- a condition in which the blood has too few red blood cells
- apotheosis
- raising a person to the rank of a god
- maleficent
- evil
- denude
- to strip bare
- monotheism
- the doctrine or belief that there is only one god
- allay
- relieve
- entourage
- a group of associates or attendents
- assuage
- relieve
- plausible
- believable
- anthropoid
- resembling a human
- apathetic
- lacking interest
- anesthetic
- substance that causes loss of sensation
- atrophy
- waste away
- vanguard
- the leading position especially in the army
- sumptous
- excessively costly
- misanthrope
- a person who hates people