Monday, August 29, 2016

Vocabulary 2

Faith-
          Complete trust or confidence in someone or something.

          I have complete faith I'm my teacher to help me succeed.

Threshold-
                    Strip of wood;magnitude or intestesty that must be exceeded.

           He'll carry you over the threshold and pretend to fall to the floor.  

Tarry-
           Of,Like,covered with tar
          
            Not many small towns so I'll keep rolling and not tarry here.

Resolve-
                To settle and find a solution.

                 The whole family had to resolve the problem.

Discern-
                Perceive or reconqnize something.

                 He sat on the floor with her, but could discern neither what was wrong nor how to help.

Martyr-
              Killing someone due to their beliefs.

              He was represented as a warrior performing superhuman feats as a ruler dispensing perfect justice  and even as a martyr suffering for the faith.

Mirth-
           Amusement,especially as expressed in laighter.

         His eyes twinkled with mirth, but he refused to let the rest of his face respond.

Catechism-
                      A series of fixed questions and or answers.
                                                                                    His principal work was Lectures on the Catechism.

Pious-
            Religious

            They were to be applied to pious uses.

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