| A | B |
|---|
| unique | one of a kind |
| denomination | a religious group |
| superior | better than all the rest |
| conjunction | a combination; go along with |
| pageant | a large elaborate show or play |
| clammy | sweaty |
| translucent | can see through |
| heathen | a person who doesn't believe in God; an uncivilized person |
| revert | go back to |
| version | a report or description from someone's point of view |
| congregation | a gathering of people; a group meeting for religious services |
| spectacle | something to look at, especially an unusual sight or a grand public show |
| fornicators | people who have sex outside of marriage |
| wittiest | clever in an amusing (funny) way |
| inhabit | live on or live in |
| crisis | a time of great danger or trouble |
| engraved | to carve or etch letters or a design on |
| orphanage | where children live that have no one to care for them |
| orphans | children without parents |
| mysterious | hard to explain or solve |
| eventually | in the end or finally |
| temptation | something that tempts |
| tempt | to try to get a person to do or want something that is wrong or forbidden |
| typical | usual; nothing out of the ordinary |
| archaeologist | someone who studies ancient times and ancient peoples |
| ancient | very, very old |
| oceanographer | someone who studies the ocean |
| psychotherapy | study of the mind and the the reasons for the way people think & act |
| digress | to wander from the subject that one has been talking or writing about |
| obvious | easy to see or understand |
| bona fide | genuine; for real; not fake |
| social | having to do with human beings as they live togethre in a group; liking to be with others |
| hideous | horrible to see, hear, etc.; very ugly or disgusting |
| spinster | a woman who has never married, especially an older woman |
| cardigan | a button up sweater |
| phase | any stage in a period of changes |
| influence | to power to affect persons or things |
| trigonometry | branch of mathematics that deals with the relations between the sides and angles of triangles |
| dismissed | to send away; to put out of one's mind; to fire from a job |
| metropolis | any large or important city |
| congressional | having to do with Congress |
| Congress | group of elected officials in the U.S. government that makes the laws; consists of Senate & the House of Representatives |
| district | any parts into which a country, city, etc. is divided |
| Raleigh | capital of North Carolina |
| slogan | saying; for example, Nike's slogan is "Just Do It" |
| stenciled | to mark with a stencil (see example in dictionary) |
| sophisticated | not simple; wise in the ways of the world |
| foul language | curse words |
| gist | the the main point or idea |
| communism | system in which the means of producing good are owned by the community, and all of the people share in the work & the goods produced |
| infiltrating | to pass through as if by being filtered (our troops infiltrated the enemy lines) |
| consistently | always acting or thinking in the same way |
| irrelevant | doesn't matter |
| relevant | matters |
| defuse | make a situation better |
| situation | condition or state as caused by things that have happened |
| disillusionment | to free from a false idea or an illusion |
| illusion | a false idea or mistaken belief; the appearnce of something that makes one see it in a false way (this wallpaper gives an illusion of bricks) |
| minister | pastor |
| diligently | doing one's work in a careful, steady way; working hard |
| prospering | to succeed, thrive or grow |
| shrewd | clever or sharp in practical matters (a shrewd bargainer) |
| accumulating | to pile up, gather, collect |
| inspiration | to cause, urge or influence to do something; to cause to have a certain feeling or thought |
| radius | any straight line that goes from the center to the outside of a circle or sphere |
| retribution | punishment that one deserves for a wrong he has done; payback |
| outrageous | so wrong or bad that it hurts or shocks |
| amassing | to pile up; collect or gather together (amass much money) |
| foreclose | to end a mortgage and become the owner of the mortgaged property (a bank can foreclose a mortage if the payments are not paid on time) |
| mortgage | an agreement in which a person borrowing money gives the lender a claim to property as a pledge that the debt will be paid |
| default | failure to do what one should do or be where one should be (the team defaulted on the game); failure to pay money owed (he defaulted on his loan from the bank) |
