Units 4&5

belligerence

• a funeral song or lament

• revealing hostility and a readiness to fight

• authoritative permission for an action

• a course taken

cadence

• intonation of the voice

• extreme poverty

• one who precedes another in a course of office

• the quality of being thrifty

plagiarism

• condition of the soul lost in eternal punishment

• the direction of an object through space

• a pause

• the act of stealing and using the ideas of another as one's own

penury

• not spending or using unnecessarily

• extreme poverty

• readiness to fight

• leniency toward an offender or enemy

eon

• a person or thing greatly detested

• cutting or sarcastic in utterance

• an indefinitely long time

• excess

agnostic

• one who asserts all claims to God as unknown

• one who asserts the truth of God

• one who denies the existence of God

plethora

• occurring in occasional or isolated instances

• capable of burning tissue by chemical action

• a test, rule, or standard by which something is judged

• superabundance

caustic

• a leader who appeals to the emotions of the populace to gain power

• a fictitious name

• cutting or sarcastic in nature

• a supposed remedy for all diseases or ills

idiosyncrasy

• a temperament peculiar to an individual

• a name or title used to describe a person or thing

• a curse or imprecation generally

• a formal ecclesiastical curse or ban

criterion

• capable of corroding tissue by chemical reaction

• excess

• a test, rule, or standard by which something is judged

• an indefinitely long time