| 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. |
| albeit |
notwithstanding; even though. |
| betroth |
to pledge or give in marriage. |
| comparative |
measured or estimated by comparison; relative. |
| epitaph |
on a gravestone or tomb, an inscription commemorating the dead person. |
| equivocation |
the act of communicating in ambiguous, shifting, or indecisive terms, often to avoid or deceive. |
| expunge |
to cross out or erase. |
| gibe |
a mocking or derisive comment. |
| immobility |
the state or condition of not moving or being motionless. |
| intimacy |
the condition of being close in friendship or otherwise intimate. |
| pacifist |
one who opposes war and refuses to practice or acknowledge violence as a way of settling disputes or resisting aggression. |
| retroactive |
going into operation or effect as of a previous date, or in respect to past events or circumstances. |
| secular |
of or concerning the world and material concerns as opposed to religious or spiritual concerns; temporal. |
| specious |
apparently true, genuine, or plausible, but actually worthless, as an argument or evidence. |
| spendthrift |
one who is extravagant or wasteful with money; squanderer. |