Ap Lit Vocab
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| 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 |