Vocabulary Flashcards: Defeatist, Console, Nuptial, Carnal, Resignation, Initiation, Flagellate, Secular, Bearable, Ideology, Belligerent

defeatist

A person who surrenders quickly or gives up hope easily.

console

To give comfort to another person in order to alleviate their grief.

nuptial

Of or related to a marriage; matrimonial, marital.

carnal

Of or related to crude bodily appetites; corporeal or sexual.

resignation

An attitude of acceptance towards hardship or calamity.

initiation

The process admitting someone into a selective and often secret group through a formal ritual or ceremony; the process of being introduced to some experience or realm of activity.

flagellate

To punish by whipping.

secular

Not affiliated with any particular religion; nonreligious; worldly and inclusive.

bearable

Endurable, sufferable, livable.

ideology

A systematic body of concepts that supports some particular political, economic, or religious worldview; the thinking characteristic of a particular group or culture.

belligerent

Hostile and combative.