Chapter 1-4 Vocabulary

Definitions

100

Malevolent

1: having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred

2: productive of harm or evil

200

Not often

Seldom

300

dictum

1.  an authoritative declaration
2.  an opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding

400

 a general state or ordering of things specifically : 

 an exemption from a law or from an impediment, vow, or oath may be granted a dispensation from the rule

Dispensation

500

assuage

to lessen the intensity of (something that pains or distresses)

Synonyms

100

Indigenous

Domestic, native, local

200

Mortification

• abashment, 
• confusion,
• embarrassment, 
• fluster

300

Sojourn

Visit, Stay, stop-by

400

Unsullied

Spotless, Unsoiled, clean

500

• aggravations
• annoyances 
• bedevilments
• botherations
• disturbances 
• harassments

Vexations

Antonyms

100

Tranquility

• alarm
• anxiety, 
• anxiousness,
• disquiet,
• uneasiness, 
• worry
• excitability,
• nervousness
• disturbance

200

Persevere

• give up, 
• knock off, 
• quit
• bow, 
• give in, 
• submit, 
• succumb, 
• surrender, 
• yield

300

• nonaggressive, 
• nonbelligerent, 
• pacific, 
• peaceable, 
• peaceful,

Contentious

400

Auspicious

• bleak, 
• dark, 
• depressing, 
• desperate, 
• discouraging, 
• disheartening, 
• dismal,

500

• disbelief, 
• doubt
• not devoted to religious duties

Piety