Vocab
Calumny
1. the making of false statements that damage another's reputation.
2. a misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation.
SYNONYM:
Vociferous
1. marked by or given to vehement insistent outcry
2. engaging in or armed by loud and insistent cries especially of protest
SYN: Vocal, Outspoken, Blatant
Piety
1. The quality or state of being pious, such as, a fidelity to natural obligation *as parents* or be dutifulness in religion.
2. Belief, trust, and loyalty to God.
Orthodoxy
1. orthodox belief or practice
2. state of being orthodox
3. Orthodox Christianity or Judaism
SYN: Religion, agreement, conformity
Pious
1. marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship.
2. firm in one's allegiance to someone or something
SYN: Faithful, Devoted, Loyal
Refrain
1. a regularly recurring phase or verse especially at the end of each stanza or division of a poem or song.
2. A comment or statement that is often repeated.
SYN: repeat, burden (Noun)
Acuity
1. the state or quality of being able to sense slight impressions or differences
SYN: Sensitivity, perceptivity, Sharpness
Apellation
1. a word or combination of words by which a person or thing is regularly known.
2. A geographical name (as of region, village, or vineyard) under which a winegrower is authorized to identify and market win.
SYN: Nickname, Title, Denomination
Ascertain
1. to find out or learn with certainty
2. to make certain, exact, or precise.
SYN: discover, find out, learn
Contemporaneous
1. existing, occurring, or originating during the same time
SYN: Coexistent, Concurrent, Synchronous
Corporeal
1. having, consisting of, or relating to a physical material body: such as a non spiritual or a non immaterial or intangible.
2. of or relating to the human body
SYN: Physical, Body, Somatic
Dilatory
2. characterized by procrastination
3. moving or proceeding at less than the normal, desirable, or required speed.
SYN: tardy, slow, lagging
Impiety
1. the quality or state of being impious
2. an impious act
an act of great disrespect shown to God or sacred ideas, people, or things
Iniquity
1. gross injustice
2. a wicked act or thing
3. an immoral conduct or practice harmful or offensive to society
SYN: immorality, Evilness, Corruption
Kleptocracy
1. government by those who seek chiefly status and personal gain at the expense of the governed
2.Governement by people who use their powers to steal their country's resources.
SYN: Corruption, Kleptarchy
1. resent and capable of emerging or developing but not visible, obvious, active or symptomatic
2. a fingerprint (as the scene of a crime) that is scarcely visible but can be developed for study
3. Not being in the state of us, activity, or employment.
SYN:Unused, Inactive, idle
Obeisance
1. a movement of the body made in token of respect or submission
SYN: Bow
2. acknowledgment of another's superiority or importance
SYN: Respect, Submissiveness
Parry
1. to ward off a weapon or blow
2. to evade or turn aside something
SYN: Avoid, escape, deflect
2. an emotion of sympathetic pity
SYN: Sorrow, Grief, Heartbreak
Quintessential
1. perfectly typical or representative of a particular person or thing
2. constituting, serving as, or worthy, of being a pattern to be intimidated
SYN: Classic, Exemplary, Perfect
Sanctimony
1. Obsolete (Out of date/no longer produced)
2. affected or hypocritical holiness
SYN: Hypocrisy, irreverence, Depravity
Supercilious
1. coddle and patronizingly haughty
2. having a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitude
SYN: Arrogant, Smug, Haughty
Torpor
1. a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility
2. lack of interest or concern
SYN: disregard, unconcerned, incuriousity
Ubiquitous
1. existing or being everywhere at the same time
2. often observed to encountered
SYN: Usual, Frequent, Familiar
Veracity
1. devotion to the truth
2.power of conveying or perceiving truth
SYN: Integrity, Honesty, Sincerity