Reading chp 8 vocab

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Allegations

accusations that someone has done something wrong

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Legalist

A person who strictly follows rules

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Reactionary

Someone who strongly opposes social change

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Inveighed

wrote or speak out against

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Dogmatic
Stubbornly asserting opinions as absolutely true
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Foreground

The part of idea that is most prominent

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Supplement

Something that complete something

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Unambiguously

In a way that is completely clear

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Ambiguously

In a way that is unclear to multiple interpretations.

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Detractors

People who criticize something.

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Plausibly

In a way that seems reasonable

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Promulgated

Formally announced

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Force field

An invisible influencing barrier

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Backdrop
The background setting for an event
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Colloquial
Informal language used in everyday conversation
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Pious

Deeply religious

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Goyim

A Hebrew term meaning non-Jews can be neutral or derogatory

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Flouting

Openly ignoring a rule

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Caravaggio

An influential Italian Baroque painter

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Assuredly

Certainly

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Epochal
Extremely significant
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Ordinances

Authoritative laws

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Explicitly

Clearly stated

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Hellenistic Roman
Refers to the blend of Greek (Hellenistic) and Roman culture
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Integration

The process of combining parts into a whole system.

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Nascent

Just beginning to exist

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Conjured
Brought to mind
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Treked / Trekked
Traveled a long or difficult distance
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Discernible
Able to be noticed or recognized
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Prude

a person who has very strict ideas about what is proper

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Misogynist

a person who hates women

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profuse

plentiful

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infuriated

enrage

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Zeal

passion for a cause

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Munificence

very great generosity, especially i money

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Tidings

important or unexpected news

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elaborate
detailed
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patronage

protection or financial given by one organization to another

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dispensed
distributed
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deferential
respects for another's higher status
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strata
deferential
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entity
existence
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debilitating
draining
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legion
Roman military legion (army)
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conferred
consulted
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arduous
difficult
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disparity
difference
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enervating
draining
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heralded
declared
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teetering
moving unsteadily
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appropriate
take (something) for one's own use
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shalom
complete peace & wholeness of life
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magistrates
judges
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bigot
dogmatist
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chauvinist
a person with a attitude of superiority toward members of opposite sex
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scruples
hesitations