Prometheus Rising Vocab

Pierre W.
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  1. succinct
    briefly giving the gist of something
  2. Prometheus
    the Titan who stole fire from Olympus and gave it to mankind
  3. Utopianism
    the political orientation of a Utopian who believes in impossibly idealistic schemes of social perfection
  4. theocracy
    a political unit governed by a deity
  5. elitism
    attitude that a high-status group should govern society
  6. coruscant
    having brief brilliant points or flashes of light
  7. elucidation
    an act of explaining that serves to cast light on
  8. dogma
    a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
  9. doctrine
    a belief accepted as authoritative by some group or school
  10. enunciate
    express or state clearly
  11. prosaic
    lacking wit or imagination
  12. armamentarium
    the collection of equipment and methods used in the practice of medicine
  13. myopic
    unable to see distant objects clearly
  14. chagrin
    strong feelings of embarrassment
  15. apathetic
    showing little or no emotion or animation
Created on Wed Apr 18 19:38:11 EDT 2007

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