Vocab 4 

Disparage- to lower in rank or position

• Due to my job, I was not able to disparage any political stance, and I had to keep my mind to myself.

Dogma- something held as an established belief

• I had to teach the dogma to the church to the new students.

Edify- to enlighten or inform usually morally

• It was the priest's job to edify the people about the church.

Efface- removing by wearing away at the surface

• Since the document was so old, the writing was almost completely effaced.

Enigma- something hard to explain

• The movie star seemed like such an enigma, but really she was just a person.

The loadstone rock is a rock that is naturally magnetic. It is used in A tale of two cities, dickens uses it to show the pull to France. Dickens uses this to refer to a story from The Arabian Nights when their boat was drawn to a loadstone rock. Now it means something that has a very strong pull to something,.