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| Apostates | One who has abandoned one's religious faith, a political party, one's principles, or a cause. |
| empathy | Identification with and understanding of another's situation, feelings, and motives. |
| metaphysical | Based on speculative or abstract reasoning. |
| dynamism | Continuous change, activity, or progress; vigor. |
| epithet | A term used to characterize a person or thing. |
| holocaust | Great destruction resulting in the extensive loss of life, especially by fire. |
| allergy | An abnormally high sensitivity to certain substances, such as pollens, foods, or microorganisms. |
| demonolatry | Worship of demons. |
| oconoclast | One who attacks and seeks to |
| antipathy | A strong feeling of aversion or repugnance. |
| neophyte | A beginner or novice |
| thermostate | A device, as in a home heating system that automatically responds to temperature changes. |
| cosomogonal | A specific theory or model of the origin and evolution of the universe. |
| aesthete | One who cultivates an unusually high sensitivity to beauty, as in art or nature. |
| anecdote | A short account of an interesting or humorous incident. |
| caustic | Corrosive and bitingly trenchant; cutting. |
| iconolatry | Worship of icons or images. |
| cacophony | Jarring, discordant sound; dissonance. |
| apathy | Lack of interest or concern, especially regarding matters of general importance or appeal; indifference. |
| dynasty | A succession of rulers from the same family or line |
| misogyny | Hatred of women |
| kinesthetic | The sense that detects bodily position, weight, or movement of the muscles, tendons, and joints. |
| neolithic | Of or relating to the cultural period of the Stone Age |
| heterogeneous | Completely different; incongruous. |
| polyandry | The condition or practice of having more than one husband at one time. |
| anathema | a curse |
| prognosis | The likelihood of recovery from a disease. |
| euphemism | The act or an example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive |
| apotheosis | Exaltation to divine rank or stature; deification. |
| schism | A separation or division into factions. |
| archetype | An original model or type after which other similar things are patterned; a prototype |
| sterophonic | Of or used in a sound-reproduction system that uses two or more separate channels to give a more natural distribution of sound. |
| idiom | Regional speech or dialect. |
| synthesis | The combining of separate elements or substances to form a coherent whole. |
| dogmatism | Arrogant, stubborn assertion of opinion or belief. |
| homogeneous | Uniform in structure or composition throughout. |
| hypothetical | Suppositional; uncertain; theoretical. |
| antithesis | The direct or exact opposite |
| misanthropic | Characterized by a hatred or mistrustful scorn for humankind. |
| sterotype | One that is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type. |
| theocratic | A government which rules by religious authority. |
| gastronomical | The art or science of good eating. |
| dermatologist | A doctor who is concerned with the physiology and pathology of the skin. |
| pseudonym | A fictitious name, especially a pen name. |
| gynecology | The branch of medicine dealing with health care for women |
| android | Possessing human features. |
| chronlogical | Arranged in order of time of occurrence |
| archaeologist | An expert in the study of past human life and culture by the recovery and examination of remaining material evidence |
| heliotropic | Growth or orientation of a sessile organism, especially a plant, toward or away from the light of the sun. |
| biopsy | The removal and examination of a sample of tissue from a living body for diagnostic purposes. |
| ideological | Pertaining to the body of ideas reflecting the social needs and aspirations of an individual, group, class, or culture. |
| microcosm | A small, representative system having analogies to a larger system |
| taxonomy | The classification of organisms in an ordered system that indicates natural relationships. |
| necromancy | The practice of supposedly communicating with the spirits of the dead in order to predict the future; Black magic; sorcery. |
| psychiatry | The branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental and emotional disorders. |
| anthropologist | The scientific study of the origin, the behavior, and the physical, social, and cultural development of humans. |
| paleolithic | Of or relating to the cultural period of the Stone Age |
| autonomy | Self-government or the right of self-government; independence. |
| ethnologist | An expert in the branch of anthropology that deals with the origin, distribution, and characteristics of human racial groups. |
| autocratic | A ruler having unlimited power; a despot; dictator. |
