The Chrysalids- Ch.1-10 Vocabulary

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Hind-sight

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Understanding of a situation or event only after it has happened or developed.

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Emphatic

Back 2

Showing or giving emphasis; expressing forcibly and clearly.

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Conventions

Back 3

A way in which something is usually done, especially within a particular area or activity.

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Rote

Back 4

a set, mechanical way of doing things

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Definition of Man

Back 5

The religious definition of a normally formed human being as David's society believed it should be

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Blasphemy

Back 6

The act of offense about god

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Perturbed

Back 7

Anxious or unsettled; upset

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Tribulation

Back 8

A cause of great trouble or suffering

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Tedious

Back 9

Too long, slow or dull; tiresome or monotonous

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Temporal

Back 10

Relating to the world instead of spiritual affairs; secular

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Magistrate

Back 11

Civil officer who administers the law

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Offence

Back 12

Malformed animal or vegetable

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Pious

Back 13

Devoutly religious

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Deviations

Back 14

Act of departing from an accepted pattern

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Meticulous

Back 15

Showing great attention to detail; very careful and percise

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Legalistic

Back 16

Strict, literal or excessive conformity to the law or religious code

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Repentences

Back 17

Sincere regret or remorse

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Mutant

Back 18

A thing accused in the sight of god and man

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Abated

Back 19

(Something threatening) become less intense or widespread

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Norm

Back 20

Image of god

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Pulpit

Back 21

A raised platform in a church from which the preacher delivers a sermon

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Attested-pedigrees

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Certified document signed by witnesses to prove genuine the ancestral line of an animal

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Sullied

Back 23

Damage the purity or integrity of

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Penance

Back 24

Voluntarily self-punishment to make amends for wrongdoing

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Pestilence

Back 25

A fatal epidemic disease

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Retribution

Back 26

Punishment or vengeance for evil deeds

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Oblivious

Back 27

Unaware or concerned

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Stout

Back 28

thick and strong; brave and determined

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Monstrosity

Back 29

Something large and considered unslightly

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Normalcy certificate

Back 30

a birth certificate that indicates what district you are from and name

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Heresy

Back 31

Belief or opinion contrary to orthodox religious

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Plodding

Back 32

Slow moving and unexciting

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Decreed

Back 33

Order something

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Concocting

Back 34

Make (a dish or meal) by combining many ingredients

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Abetting

Back 35

Encourage or assist (someone) to do something

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Malicious

Back 36

Intending to do harm

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Fruition

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Fulfilment of a plan or project

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Lewd

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Crude and offense

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Omnipotent

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Unlimited, great power

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Sodom and Gomorrah

Back 40

Cities mention in the Genesis

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Travesties

Back 41

False representation of something

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Chafed

Back 42

Made sore by rubbing

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Prophet

Back 43

A person regarded as being sent by god to teach people

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Lamentable

Back 44

Deplorably bad or unsatisfactory; express sorrow or grief

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Flounder

Back 45

Struggle helplessly; show great confusin