Vocabulary: The Destructive Male

Definition: to make great or greater in power, wealth, rank, or honor

• acquisition

• aggrandizing

• inquisitions

• persecutions

Definition: The act of acquiring or gaining possession

• aggrandizing

• acquisition

• discord

• Creeds

Definition: disagreement; difference of opinion.

• inquisitions

• veiled

• persecutions

• discord

Definition: an official investigation, especially one of a political or religious nature, characterized by lack of regard for individual rights, prejudice on the part of the examiners, and recklessly cruel punishments.

• persecutions

• untempered

• inquisitions

• repressed

Definition: a program or campaign to exterminate, drive away, or subjugate people based on their membership in a religious, ethnic, social, or racial group

• inquisitions

• persecutions

• untempered

• disfranchised

Definition: any system or codification of belief or of opinion.

• Creeds

• veiled

• scarce

• vices

Definition: not openly or directly expressed; masked; disguised; hidden; obscure

• diviner

• scarce

• disfranchised

• veiled

Definition: A prophet; soothsayer; one who speaks for the divine

• veiled

• scarce

• diviner

• virtues

Definition: insufficient to satisfy the need or demand; not abundant

• scarce

• diviner

• repressed

• virtues

Definition: made less intense or violent, especially by the influence of something good or benign

• disfranchised

• fragmentary

• untempered

• dilutions