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A World Lit Only by Fire Vocabulary
1. PEJORATIVE: A word or phrase that has negative connotations or that is intended to disparage or belittle.

2. ILLITERATE: Having or demonstrating very little or no education.

3. SCORNED: Open or unqualified contempt; disdain.

4. EXTANT: In existence; still existing; not destroyed or lost.

5. MELANGE: A mixture; medley.

6. APATHY: Absence or suppression of passion, emotion, or excitement.

7. BUREAUCRATIC: Relating to, or having the characteristics of a bureaucracy.

8. ABSOLUTISM: A political theory that absolute power should be vested in one or more rulers.

9. ZEALOUS: Marked by fervent partisanship for a person, a cause, or an ideal.

10. PILLAGE: The act of looting or plundering especially in war.

11. CHIEFTAIN: A chief especially of a band, tribe, or clan.

12. SERFS: A member of a servile feudal class bound to the land and subject to the will of its owner.

13. PULVERIZE: To reduce (as by crushing, beating, or grinding) to very small particles.

14. INSULAR: Characteristic of an isolated people; especially : being, having, or reflecting a narrow provincial viewpoint.

15. OSTENSIBLE: Intended for display : open to view.

16. CONTEMPORARY: Happening, existing, living, or coming into being during the same period of time.

17. WANTON: Playfully mean or cruel.

18. DEMURRED: To take exception.

19. HERESIARCH: An originator or chief advocate of a heresy.

20. APOTHEOSIS: The perfect model of excellence or perfection

21. INNOMINATE: Having no name

22.EVISCERATE: To surgically remove an appendage or organ

23.EMASCULATED: Having the testicles removed on a male

24.MISOGYNY: Hatred of women

25.LUBRICITY: Behavior that is crude (rape)

26.INVESTED: To surround with military troops

27.CUPIDITY: Extreme greed for money or wealth

28SATYRICAL: Sarcastically critical and mocking of others

29.ADMIXTURE: Impairing the quality or reducing the value of something 30.COMITY: The

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