The Power and the Glory

Ms Sanderson (United States of America)
AP Lit Summer Reading
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  1. breviary
    (Roman Catholic Church) a book of prayers to be recited daily certain priests and members of religious orders
  2. carious
    (of teeth) affected with cavities or decay
  3. congenital
    present at birth but not necessarily hereditary
  4. contrition
    sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation
  5. credo
    any system of principles or beliefs
  6. debase
    make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance
  7. fissure
    a long narrow depression in a surface
  8. florid
    elaborately or excessively ornamented
  9. impudent
    improperly forward or bold
  10. ingratiate
    gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts
  11. mortal sin
    an unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace
  12. ostentatious
    intended to attract notice and impress others
  13. parish
    a local church community
  14. pedantry
    an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning
  15. piety
    righteousness by virtue of being religiously devout
  16. precipitate
    bring about abruptly
  17. presbytery
    building reserved for the officiating clergy
  18. priggish
    exaggeratedly or self-righteously proper
  19. protuberant
    curving, jutting, or bulging outward
  20. purgatory
    a temporary state of the dead in Roman Catholic theology
  21. scrupulous
    characterized by extreme care and great effort
  22. shrive
    grant remission of a sin to
  23. vicarious
    experienced at secondhand
  24. ware
    articles of the same kind or material
Created on Sun Jul 02 13:23:36 EDT 2017

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