| acolyte |
a person who assists a clergyman in religious services, especially Roman Catholic. |
| agnostic |
one who believes it is impossible to know anything about the existence or nonexistence of God or about the essential nature of things beyond the material universe. |
| avid |
having or showing great enthusiasm. |
| defray |
to pay or assist in the payment of (costs or the like). |
| diffidence |
reticence; shyness. |
| discontinuous |
interrupted or intermittent; not without pause or break. |
| divest |
to take rights or property away from; dispossess, especially by legal means. |
| expurgate |
to remove from a book or the like material considered to be offensive or erroneous prior to publication. |
| indiscriminate |
lacking in judgment and discernment; making no distinctions. |
| parsimony |
excessive unwillingness to spend money or use resources; stinginess. |
| squalor |
living conditions that are filthy, or the state of being dirty or foul. |
| subversive |
tending or intended to undermine or cause the overthrow of an established authority, especially a national government. |
| transmute |
to change into another form, substance, state, or the like. |
| vertigo |
a sensation of unsteadiness or dizziness, such that one's surroundings seem to be whirling around. |
| workaday |
ordinary; mundane; everyday. |