Bolton vocab 131-150
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| 45559001 | eulogy | a speech praising another; tribute; great praise | |
| 45559002 | exalt | to glorify; praise; honor; to raise in rank, character, or status; elevate | |
| 45559003 | exhort | to urge or incite by strong argument, advice, or appeal | |
| 45559004 | expatiate | to speak or write at length; elaborate | |
| 45559005 | garrulous | habitually talkative, especially excessively so | |
| 45559006 | gist | the central idea of a matter; essence | |
| 45559007 | histrionic | excessively dramatic or emotional; affected; of or pertaining to actors or acting | |
| 45559008 | laconic | using or marked by the use of few words; terse | |
| 45559009 | peremptory | not allowing contradiction or refusal; imperative; having the nature of expressing a command; urgent; putting an end to all debate or action | |
| 45559010 | polemic | a controversy or argument, especially one that is a refutation of or an attack upon the opinions or doctrines of another (adj) of or pertaining to a controversy, argument, or refutation | |
| 45559011 | consecrate | to declare or set apart as holy or sacred; to dedicate to a worthy goal or service; to confirm officially by religious or civil ceremonies | |
| 45559012 | credo | a system of fundamental beliefs or guiding principles; creed; a formal statement of religious belief | |
| 45559013 | desecrate | to violate or abuse the sacredness of; profane; to treat irreverently or contemptuously, thereby arousing outrage in others | |
| 45559014 | laudable | deserving prasie; commendable | |
| 45559015 | pious | having or exhibiting reverence and earnest compliance in the observance of religion; devout; professing or exhibiting a strict, traditional sense of virtue and morality; high-minded; marked by false devoutness; solemnly hypocritical | |
| 45559016 | sacrilegious | disrespectful or irreverent toward something sacred | |
| 45559017 | sanctimony | pretended devoutness or righteousness; a hypocritical show of holiness | |
| 45559018 | sanctity | the quality or condition of being considered sacred; inviolability | |
| 45559019 | supplicate | to make a humble entreaty to; beseech; to ask for humbly or earnestly, as by praying; to make a humble and earnest petition; beg | |
| 45559020 | venerate | to regard with respect, reverence, or deference |
