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Inherit the Wind
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English
9th Grade
02/13/2008

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Term
extradite
Definition
to hand over (an acused or convicted person) to a country/state in which the crime was committed
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saunter
Definition

to walk leisurely and careless gait

 

to stroll 

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infidel
Definition

one who does not believe in (what the speaker holds to be) the true religion

 

an "unbeliever" 

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malleable
Definition

someone/thing that is capable of being fashioned or adapted

 

adaptable, pliable 

 

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heathen
Definition

applied to persons or races whose religion is neither Christian, Jewich, or Muslim

 

 pagan

 

gentile 

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dogma
Definition

that which is held as an opinion

 

a belief, principle, tenet

 

a tenet or doctrine authoritatively laid down by a particular church, sect, or school of thought

 

sometimes, depreciatingly, an imperious or arrogant declaration of opinion 

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agnostic
Definition
one who holds the existence of anything beyond and behing material phenomenon is unknown (and so far can be judged as unknowable), and esp. that a First Cause and an unseen world are subjects of which we know nothing
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heretic
Definition
one who holds tehological or religions opinions at variance with the 'catholic' or orthodox doctrine of the Christian Church, or, by extension, that of any church or religious system considered as othedox
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petulant
Definition
impudent, insolent, rude
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superfluous

 

Definition

 that exceeds what is sufficient

 

excessively abundant or numerous 

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pariah
Definition

a member of any low class

 

a person of no caste, an outcaste 

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fervent
Definition

of persons, their passions, dispositions, or actions:

ardent, intensely earnest 

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unorthodox
Definition
holding opinions that go against standard and accepted opinions (esp. religious ones)
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pagan
Definition
a person not subscribing to any major or recognized religion, esp. the dominant religion of a particular society
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incredulous
Definition

unbelieving

 

not ready to believe

 

skeptical

 

 

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epotimize
Definition

to summarize

 

to give a precise account of

 

to state the essence (of a matter) briefly 

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concede
Definition

to allow, admit, grant (a proposition), to ackknowledge the truth, justice, or propriety of (a statement, claim, etc.)

 

 sometimes in a weaker sense, to allow formally for the sake of argument

 

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contemptuous
Definition

showing contempt/hatred (said of person, their conducts and acts)

 

full of contempt

 

disdainful, scornful, insolent 

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tentative
Definition
subject to change
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indignant
Definition
moved by an emotion with anger mingled with scorn or contempt
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