Renaissance Vocabulary

Relating to earthly life rather than to religion or spiritual matters:

• satire

• securities

• tragedy

• secular

following the Middle Ages, a movement that centered on the revival of interest in the classical learning of Greece and Rome

• Vernacular

• Humanism

• Secularism

• Renaissance

Rebirth of Greco-Roman culture with an emphasis on humanism.

• Byzantine

• Revitalization

• Renaissance

• Reincarnation

An outstanding thing done successfully typically by effort, courage, or skill

• achievement

• dissent

• prosper

• secular

A lot of valuable possessions or money

• Wealth

• Intolerance

• Resist

• Scholar

A person or organization that have power or are in control

• authority

• culture

• protest

• unity

The state of being brought together as one

• Unity

• Revolution

• Persecute

• Dissent

The language, ideas, inventions, and art of a particular group of people

• Culture

• scholar

• unity

• Intolerance

Non-religious

• secular

• reform

• prosper

• wealth

Disagreement

• dissent

• culture

• resist

• secular