Nouns
This word means a system of beliefs that guide someone’s actions, often religious.
What is a creed?
This word means an excessively intense feeling of well being, joy, power, importance.
What is exaltation?
We do this action when we speak as a witness and confirm or support a statement/theory.
What is "to corroborate?"
This word means behavior that shows good manners, rightness, morality, or as the French would say, etiquette.
What is propriety?
If you have an established preference for something, you have this.
What is a predilection?
This thing is something extremely hated, seen as disgusting and sinful.
What is an abomination?
This verb can mean to ooze from or to be on display abundantly.
What is "to exude?"
This adjective describes the quality of having disregard for moral restraints, especially with regard to intimacy.
What is licentious?
This is what we call a small group that splits from a larger group because of opposing ideas.
What is a faction?
This past participle is used when you want to say something is filled with extreme delight.
What is enraptured?
People who raid and attack and steal are doing this.
What is "to maraud?"
This noun means the area of a community that is assigned to one priest; a subdivision of a county, and in early colonial times was also governed by the religious authority.
What is a parish?
When we show respect due to a superior or an elder, we are showing this.
What is deference?
Lies about someone that will damage their reputation are synonymous with this noun.
What is a calumny?
This person is a strong supporter of a political cause, party or person.
What is a partisan?
People often have this anxiety when they feel that something bad will happen.
What is apprehension?
This noun means a system of beliefs that guide someone’s actions, often religious.
What is a creed?
This word is used by people who believe in a widely followed religion to describe a person who they consider a non-believer.
What is a heathen?
The word for this kind of religious person was first used to describe people who wanted the Church of England to be purified of following anything but the literal word of the Bible, but later it came to mean American colonists who had no separation between religion and authority over the community.
What is a Puritan?
This adjective is used to describe things related to a system wherein the ruler has absolute power.
What is autocratic?