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piety
the quality of being religious or reverent
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taciturn
(of a person) reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little
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quaint
attractively unusual or old-fashioned
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prediliction
a preference or special liking for something; a bias in favor of something
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domiciled
the country that a person treats as their permanent home, or lives in and has a substantial connection with
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profane
relating or devoted to that which is not sacred or biblical; secular rather than religious
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indigenous
originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native
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auspicious
conducive to success; favorable
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palette
a thin board or slab on which an artist lays and mixes colorsa
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inordinately
unusually or disproportionately large; excessive
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ingenuous
(of a person or action) innocent and unsuspecting
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fanatical
filled with excessive and single-minded zeal
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tentatively
not certain or fixed; provisional
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articulate
(of a person or a person's words) having or showing the ability to speak fluently and coherently
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rectitude
morally correct behavior or thinking; righteousness
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tranquil
free from disturbance; calm
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protrude
extend beyond or above a surface
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frivolous
not having any serious purpose or value
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formidable
inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large, powerful, intense, or capable
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edification
the instruction or improvement of a person morally or intellectually
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infalliable
incapable of making mistakes or being wrong
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aquiescence
accept something reluctantly but without protest
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acrimonious
(typically of speech or a debate) angry and bitter
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allegory
a metaphor continuously used throughout a story
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genre
a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter
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epigraph
a short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter, intended to suggest its theme.
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personification
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form
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