Siddhartha Vocabulary

From the book siddhartha

20 cards   |   Total Attempts: 188
  

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Ablutions
A cleansing with water or other liquid
Palliative
Alleviate
Erudition
Knowledge acquired by study, research, etc
Prudent
Wise or judicious in practical affairs
Avarcious
Greedy
Venerableness
Respect because of age, dignity, character, or position.
Benediction
Good wishes or form of blessing pronounced by a minister
Conceded
To accept as true
Supplication
To ask for humbly or earnestly, as by praying
Alms
Something given freely to relieve the poor
Acquisitiveness
Characterized by a strong desire to gain and possess
Transient
Not lasting or permanent
Irrefutably
Impossible to refute or disprove
Circuitous
Not direct, roundabout
Declivity
Downward slope