Vocabulary Words 2013 - 2014

Mollify - appease anger or anxiety

Profane - not sacred
Malefactor - person who commits a crime
Arbitrary - based on random choice
Facticity - Quality of being a fact
Macabre - disturbing
Plaintiff - Brings a case against another (Law)
Elucidate - make clear
Mortgage - charging of real property of a debtor to a creditor
Indelible (Cannot be removed)
Coercive - relating to using force, threats
Culpable - deserving blame /Viable capable of working successfully
Curate - Member of the Clergy

Legislative: Having the power to make laws

Executive: Put laws into effect
Judiciary: judges collectively

(Philo) Juxtapose: Place close together for contrasting effect

Teleological: Explanation via cause they serve
Affront : Remark that causes outrage or offense

2014
dogmatic
parliamentary
incumbent
ardent
rebuked
inexorably
salvo
cogently
sclerotic
daturn
myopic
knotty
superfluous
potsherd
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ribald
bubonic
decameron
fabiliau
genial
amorous
multifarious
credulous
impenitent
eviscerated
despotism

antiquity
quaint
acerbic
lecherous

Theo 141 Words

glean-extract
impassible - incapable of feeling pain
employ
endemic - regularly found in a certain area
modicum - small quantity of a particular thing
divestiture - selling of subsidiary businesses
aseptic - free from contamination
semantic - relating to meaning in language or logic
quintessential - perfect or typical
caveat - a notice
propounded - put forth an idea
androcentric - centered on man
adduced - cite as evidence
Undulating - move with a smooth wavelike motion
assuage - make unpleasant feeling less intense
Imago dei
attenuated - weakened in force
agapaic - selfless love