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This is a List of all the essential terms, concepts, and ideas with clear and thorough definitions.
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The Big List
Allegorical- having hidden spiritual meaning that transcends the literal sense of a sacred text.
Ambition - a: an ardent desire for rank, fame, or power b: desire to achieve a particular end.
Anger - a strong feeling of displeasure and usu. of antagonism.
Arrogance - a feeling or an impression of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or presumptuous claims.
Assassination - to injure or destroy unexpectedly and treacherously
Belief - a: a state or habit of mind in which trust or confidence is placed in some person or thing. b: conviction of the truth of some statement or the reality of some being or phenomenon esp. when based on examination of evidence.
Betrayal - a: to disclose in violation of confidence b: to reveal unintentionally c: to fail or desert esp. in time of need.
Catalyst - a substance (as an enzyme) that enables a chemical reaction to proceed at a usu. faster rate or under different conditions (as at a lower temperature) than otherwise possible.
Category - any of several fundamental and distinct classes to which entities or concepts belong.
Chaos - a: a often capitalized: a state of things in which chance is supreme; especially: the confused unorganized state of primordial matter before the creation of distinct forms b: the inherent unpredictability in the behavior of a natural system (as the atmosphere, boiling water, or the beating heart)
Conceited - having an excessively high opinion of oneself
Compromise - settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions
Connection - having the parts or elements logically linked together <presented a thoroughly ~ view of the problem>
Consequence - something produced by a cause or necessarily following from a set of conditions
Cruelty - inhuman treatment
Danger - exposure or liability to injury, pain, harm, or loss <a place where children could play without ~>
Deceit - having a tendency or disposition to deceive/ not honest
Depiction - to represent by or as if by a picture
Direction - the line or course on which something is moving or is aimed to move or along which something is pointing or facing
Disgrace - archaic : to humiliate by a superior showing
Disunite - divide or to separate
Distraction - he act of distracting or the state of being distracted; especially: mental confusion
Dream - a visionary creation of the imagination b: a state of mind marked by abstraction or release from reality
Entertainment - something diverting or engaging
Evidence - one who bears witness; especially : one who voluntarily confesses a crime and testifies for the prosecution against his accomplices
Expression - a mode, means, or use of significant representation or symbolism; especially: felicitous or vivid indication or depiction of mood or sentiment <read the poem with ~>
Faith - something that is believed esp. with strong conviction; especially: a system of religious beliefs
Falsity - the quality or state of being false
Favor - friendly regard shown toward another esp. by a superior
Gullible - easily duped or cheated
Hierarchy - he classification of a group of people according to ability or to economic, social, or professional standing; also: the group so classified
Help - to give assistance or support to <~ a child with homework>
Honor - one's word given as a guarantee of performance
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