Why I became an Atheist: A former preacher rejects Christianity

Roy C. (United States of America)
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  1. corral
    a pen for cattle
  2. throes
    violent pangs of suffering
  3. sully
    make dirty or spotty
  4. gerrymander
    divide voting districts unfairly and to one's advantage
  5. epistemic
    of or relating to epistemology
  6. predicament
    an unpleasant or difficult situation
  7. simmering
    cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil
  8. temperament
    your usual mood
  9. hilt
    the handle of a sword or dagger
  10. concession
    the act of yielding
  11. fiat
    a legally binding command or decision
  12. contingent
    determined by conditions or circumstances that follow
  13. irreparable
    impossible to rectify or amend
  14. paucity
    an insufficient quantity or number
  15. eyed
    having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified; often used in combination
  16. acumen
    shrewdness shown by keen insight
  17. rabble
    a disorderly crowd of people
  18. inquisitive
    given to questioning
  19. epistemology
    the philosophical theory of knowledge
  20. ludicrous
    inviting ridicule
  21. chutzpa
    (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity
  22. asylum
    a shelter from danger or hardship
  23. absolutism
    a form of government in which the ruler is unconstrained
  24. glean
    gather, as of natural products
  25. crux
    the most important point
  26. harp
    a chordophone with strings between the neck and the soundbox
  27. prudence
    discretion in practical affairs
  28. magisterial
    of or relating to a civil officer who administers the law
  29. ministerial
    of or relating to a government department
  30. incorrigible
    impervious to correction by punishment
  31. proverbial
    widely known and spoken of
  32. subservience
    being something that is useful in carrying out a plan
  33. presupposition
    an assumption made in advance
  34. Achilles
    a mythical Greek hero of the Iliad
  35. smorgasbord
    a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
  36. fanaticism
    excessive intolerance of opposing views
  37. warrant
    formal and explicit approval
  38. warrant
    formal and explicit approval
  39. ontological
    relating to the metaphysical study of existence
  40. gerrymander
    divide voting districts unfairly and to one's advantage
  41. bloodletting
    formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood
  42. propensity
    a natural inclination
  43. utterance
    the use of spoken sounds for auditory communication
  44. avail
    be of use to, be useful to
  45. expiate
    make amends for
  46. contention
    the act of competing as for profit or a prize
  47. bawling
    loud cries made while weeping
  48. inescapable
    impossible to avoid or evade
  49. dissipate
    cause to separate and go in different directions
  50. scholarship
    profound learned knowledge
  51. sumptuous
    rich and superior in quality
  52. neurosis
    a mental illness that makes you behave in an unusual way
  53. ontological
    relating to the metaphysical study of existence
  54. epistemological
    of or relating to the study of knowledge
  55. presupposition
    an assumption made in advance
  56. virtuous
    morally excellent
  57. glean
    gather, as of natural products
  58. fiat
    a legally binding command or decision
  59. quibble
    evade the truth of a point by raising irrelevant objections
  60. implode
    burst inward
  61. spectroscope
    an optical instrument for spectrographic analysis
  62. supposition
    the cognitive process of conjecturing
  63. bravado
    a swaggering show of courage
  64. plenitude
    a full supply
  65. firmament
    the sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected
  66. omnipotent
    having unlimited power
  67. omniscient
    knowing, seeing, or understanding everything
  68. deductive
    relating to reasoning from the general to the particular
  69. gulag
    a Russian prison camp for political prisoners
  70. monsoon
    a seasonal wind in southern Asia
  71. recluse
    one who lives in solitude
  72. dumbness
    the quality of being mentally slow and limited
  73. decimate
    kill in large numbers
  74. cantankerous
    stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate
  75. syncretism
    the union of different systems of thought or belief
  76. innocuous
    not injurious to physical or mental health
  77. heuristic
    a commonsense rule to help solve some problem
Created on Fri Nov 12 11:00:00 EST 2010 (updated Sat Jan 01 02:11:41 EST 2011)

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