Vocab 6

Abdicate

To formally give up control, authority, or a high office

Absolve

To prove clear of guilt or blame 

To forgive sins; to set free from any guilt or punishment due for an offense

To relieve from a requirement or obligation

Affront

An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult

Catharsis

A purifying or refreshing release if emotional tension

Contentious

Having a propensity for quarreling; argumentative

Involving or likely to cause argument; controversial

verb to struggle with; to compete against

verb to assert something as a position in an argument

Culminate

To reach the highest point of degree

To come to completion; to end

Epitome

An example; a perfect representative of a type

Very to summarizes, especially a written work

Impeccable

Having no flaws; perfect; incapable of wrongdoing

Impunity

Exemption or immunity from punishment or injury

Adjective inflicting or intended to cause punishment

Renounce

To give up, especially by formal announcement

To reject; to disown

Rescind

To take back; to make void; to repeal

Adjective able to be rescinded

Retribution

Something which is given, demanded, or is justly deserved in repayment for an action, especially in punishment or revenge

Schism

A separation or division into opposing groups or factions; discord or discontent

Waive

To give up voluntarily; to relinquish

To refrain from insisting on or enforcing

Noun the act of or, especially a signed document attesting to the act of voluntarily relinquishing a right, claim, or requirement

Zenith

The highest point of an arc

The culminating point at which something or someone is most powerful or successful

Dicare

To say

Solvere

To loosen

Frons

Face

Katharos

Pure

Tendere

To stretch, to strive

Culmen

Summit

Epe

Into

Temnein

To cut

Poena

Penalty

Nuntiare

To announce

Scindere

To split

Tribuere

To grant

Skhizein

To split

Waif

Ownerless property

Samt

Path (over one’s head)