Nothing can be known or is known about the existence of God | ||
a mixture or blend of different things | ||
lack of definite shape | ||
something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time | ||
Lawlessness; absence of a system of government | ||
a person or thing detested or loathed | ||
being both male and female | ||
something abnormal | ||
strong dislike | ||
direct opposite | ||
of doubtful authorship or authenticity | ||
A glorified ideal; raising of a human being to the rank of a god | ||
immortality | ||
A person who believes there is no God | ||
wasting away of the body | ||
an absolute ruler | ||
Independent; self governing | ||
Throwing of projectiles | ||
harsh discordance of sound | ||
Corrosive; burns or destroys flesh | ||
Belonging to all parts of the word | ||
Secret; having a hidden meaning | ||
harmful | ||
Popular leader who stirs up people by appealing to their emotions and prejudices for the purpose of power and money | ||
Science dealing with statistics of human population; size, distribution, diseases, births | ||
Transparent | ||
Speech/discussion bitterly and violently directed against some person or thing | ||
Overbearing; arrogantly assertive of unproven ideas | ||
Not conventional; a little kooky; irregulat | ||
Drawn from many sources | ||
The ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand other's feelings, ideas, desires, and actions | ||
Native; restricted to a particular region or area; indigenous | ||
A mystery | ||
Lasting very short time | ||
A sudden insight into the essential meaning of something | ||
The perfect example of something, a paradigm | ||
One for whom something is named | ||
Hard to understand | ||
Heavenly | ||
Based on the attitude that one's own group is superior | ||
The history of a word shown by tracing its development | ||
Science that deals with the improvement of hereditary qualities or a race or breed | ||
A speech in praise of a person or thing, especially a funeral oration | ||
A pleasant inoffensive expression used in place of an unpleasant or offensive one | ||
A pleasing or sweet sound | ||
A feeling of well-being or elation | ||
The act or practice of killing the hopelessly sick or injured in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy | ||
A mass departure | ||
The origin | ||
Contrary to or different from an acknowledged standard | ||
Consisting of dissimilar or diverse ingredients | ||
An organization based on rank or degree | ||
Mass slaughter of people | ||
Fear of homosexuals | ||
An exaggeration used as a figure of speech | ||
An object of uncritical devotion | ||
One who attacks popular belief | ||
A peculiarity | ||
Using few words | ||
Excessive and often incoherent talkativeness | ||
Large enough to be observed with naked eye | ||
A mania for great or grandiose performance | ||
A vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease | ||
A world in miniature | ||
Hatred of all mankind | ||
A hatred of women | ||
One marriage at a time | ||
To suffer nearsightedness | ||
A huge number | ||
A novice | ||
Conventional | ||
Something that cures everything | ||
To destroy all things | ||
Occurring over a wide geographic area and affecting an exceptionally high proportion of the population | ||
A true statement that nonetheless seems to contradict itself | ||
A perfect example | ||
A specific causative agent of disease | ||
An element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion | ||
A dull, formal, pedantic teacher | ||
A rare or significant fact or event | ||
Lover of mankind | ||
The study of literature | ||
An excess | ||
Government by the wealthy | ||
A mixture of many languages | ||
Belief or worship in more than one god | ||
An ancestor in the direct line | ||
Offspring of animals and plants | ||
To foretell from signs or systems | ||
An original model on which something is patterned | ||
A fictitious name | ||
Of or relating to, concerned with, or involving both body and mind | ||
A irresistible impulse to start fires | ||
Mocking | ||
A formal division in or separation from a church or religious body | ||
Stopping and starting; scattered; occurring in bursts every once in a while | ||
One who sucks up to others | ||
Something that enhances the effectiveness of an active agent | ||
A condensed statement or outline | ||
A needless repetition of words or saying the same thing using different words |
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