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Austerity:
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Severity of manners of life; severe simplicity
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Ascetic:
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One who rigidly denies ordinary bodily gratifications; one who encompasses holiness through mortification of the flesh; a strict hermit.
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Alleviation:
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Mitigation; making light.
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Abstinence:
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Refraining from indulgence
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Aphorism:
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Concise statement of a principle in any science
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Anecdote:
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A short narrative of an incident of private life
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Abashment:
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Being ashamed
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Ameliorate:
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To make better; improve
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Bondage:
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Captivity; slavery
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Benevolence:
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Act of kindness; generosity
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Bereft:
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Deprived; robbed; orphaned
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Benediction:
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Blessing; a solemn invocation of the divine blessing on men or things; one pronounced at the end of any religious service.
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Beseech:
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To entreat, implore, to ask or pray earnestly
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Behove:
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To be fit
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Bliss:
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The highest happiness; the special happiness of heaven.
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Consciousness:
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The working state of mind
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Causal:
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Being the cause; that causes; relating to a cause
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Consonance:
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A state of agreement; unison
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Celibacy:
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An unmarried state under a vow; living single
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Cogitate:
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To turn a thing over in one’s mind; to meditate; to ponder
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Consummation:
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Act of completing; perfection; conclusion of life or the universe
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Cardinal:
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Fundamental; on which the thing hinges
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Consecration:
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Act of devoting to a sacred use
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Conjecture:
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Forecast; an opinion formed on slight or defective evidence or none; a guess; an idea
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Destitute:
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Left alone; forsaken; deprived; in poverty
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Detestation:
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Extreme hatred
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Deity:
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Godhood; divinity; a god or goddess
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Delineation:
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Marking out with lines, representing by sketch or Picture; drawing
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Deliverance:
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Liberation; release
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Dualism/ity:
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That view which seeks to explain the world by the assumption of two radically independent and absolute elements-eg: (i) the doctrine of the entire separation of spirit of matter, thus being opposed both to idealism and to materialism;(ii) the doctrine of two distinct principles of good and evil or of two distinct divine beings of these characters.
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Extrovert:
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To turn outward or outside in; a person interested in the world in the world external to himself.
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Emancipation:
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Act of setting free from bondage or disability of any kind
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Ex-communication:
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Expulsion from the communion
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Equanimity:
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Evenness of mind or temper
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Extinction:
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Extinguishing, quenching or wiping out
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Exhort:
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To counsel
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Foetus:
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Unborn or unhatched offspring; especially human embryo more than 8 weeks after conception
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Fruition:
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Enjoyment, attainment of thing desired, realization of hopes, bearing of fruit
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Fetish:
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Inanimate object worshipped by primitive people for its supposed inherent magical powers; abnormal stimulus.
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Filial:
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Of or due from son or daughter
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Frivolous:
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Trifling, futile, not serious, silly
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Genital:
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Of animal reproduction; external organ of reproduction
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Grandeur:
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Great power; rank or eminence; great nobility of character, sublimity or majesty of appearance; splendour of living
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Hypocrite:
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One who simulates virtue or goodness, pretender
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Hierarchy:
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The rank and grades or classes of any organization |
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Incarnation:
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Embodiment in flesh; living type
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Impostor:
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One who assumes a false character or passes himself off as someone else
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Imbroglio:
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Confused heap or complicated situation
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Immortal:
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Living for ever, not mortal, divine, unfading
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Introvert:
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One who turns the mind inward; one who withdraws himself; reserved
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Infirmity:
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Physical weakness especially through age
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Infatuate:
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Affect with extreme folly; inspired with extravagant passion
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Inculcate:
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urge, impress persistently upon person or mind
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Innate:
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inborn; natural, originating in mind
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Imbue:
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saturate, permeate, inspire
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Investiture:
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formal ceremony of investing a person into the ranks or office etc.
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which is clear to the eyes or mind; display |
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a beggar, monk, priest, brahmin, Guru, Mulla, Rabbi, Imam etc. |
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Malevolence:
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Desirous of evil to others
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Medieval:
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of or imitating the middle ages i.e 5th to 15th century; old fashioned
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Nullity:
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state of being null or void; nothingness
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Nutriment:
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that which nourishes; food
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Omnipresent:
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being everywhere at the same time
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all-knowing, a person who has knowledge of all things |
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one who has unlimited power; all powerful
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the egg-cell or female gamete |
| Orgy: |
frantic, unrestrained celebration; licentious revel |
| Oblivion: |
forgetfulness; a state of having forgotten; ammesty |
| Oblation: |
act of offering; a sacrifice; antthing offered in worship |
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to pass through pores of; to penetrate, to pervade |
| Proviso: |
a provision or condition in a deed or other writing
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the thick slimy matter secreted in the throat and discharged by coughing |
| Primeval: |
belonging to first ages |
| Penance: |
repentance, an act of mortification undertaken voluntarily or imposed by a priest to manifest sorrow for sin |
| Preceptor: |
one who delivers rules of action; a commander, one who sets principle or maxims |
| Piety: |
quality of being pious; dutifulness; devoutness, devotion |
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to increase by natural process; to multiply; to pass on, to transmit, to spread |
| Pauper: |
a destitute person |
| Primordial: |
existing from beginning; original |
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to kill, extinguish; to crush; subdue; subside |
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the act or experience of revealing, which is revealed, a disclosure; an enlightening experience; divine or super-natural communication |
| Resonance: |
resounding; sonority; sympathetic vibration. |
| Renunciation: |
act of disclaiming, disowning, rejecting, recanting, self-resignation |
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atonement |
| Reverence: |
high respect; respectful awe |
| Restitution: |
restoration |
| Resolute: |
having a fixed purpose, constant in pursuing a purpose; determined |
| Rancour: |
harbored bitterness; deep-seated enmity; spite |
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of sensation |
| Sensuous: |
pertaining to sense; easily affected by the medium of the senses |
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Scripture:
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sacred writing of a religion
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Spiritualism:
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A being spiritual; the philosophical doctrine that nothing is real but soul or spirit
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Sanctum:
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Any special reserved retreat or room; a sacred place
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Transcend:
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To rise above, to surmount; to surpass, to pass or lie beyond the limit of
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Tarnish:
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To dull; disclosure, diminish the lustre of
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Transitory:
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Going or passing away; lasting for a short time; speedily vanishing
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Uterus:
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The womb
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Vouchsafe:
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To warrant safe; guarantee
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Vacuity:
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Emptiness; space unoccupied
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Vocalic:
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Containing vowels especially many vowels; pertaining to or of the nature of a vowels |
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Vertex:
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The top or summit; the zenith; the point opposite the base
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Wrath:
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Violent anger; holy indignation
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Weal:
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A state of being well; a sound or prosperous state; welfare.
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