English honors III vocab week 9

Apostate

A person who rejects or abandons a strongly held belief

Sanctimonious

Pretending to be religious and holy, but doing so as a pretext to look down on others

Iconoclast

One who defies convention in a striking fashion

Agnostic

One who is uncertain whether there is a higher power

Sacrilege

Violation of something considered holy

Inviolate

Pure, not violated or profaned

Catholic

Universal

Irksome

Annoying

Ingratiate

To try and win another’s favor, often through flattery

Cloying

Overly sentimental to the point of being disgusting

Aggravate

To make worse

Vex

To annoy

Gall

To annoy pt.2

Mawkish

Overly sentimental and cloying