| apostate |
a person who abandons his or her religious faith, principles, cause, or the like. |
| commune2 |
a group of people living together as a community, working collectively on land owned in common or by a government. |
| criteria |
a set of standards or tests by which to judge or decide something. |
| expatriate |
one who has gone into exile from or renounced allegiance to his or her native land. |
| finicky |
exceptionally fussy or hard to satisfy. |
| fragmentary |
consisting of fragments; incomplete or disconnected. |
| infidelity |
unfaithfulness, especially to marital vows; adultery. |
| mystical |
spiritually powerful, significant, or symbolic. |
| nihilism |
the belief that existence has no meaning or purpose. |
| omnivorous |
living on a diet of both plant and animal food. |
| predominant |
being the chief or greatest in importance, status, influence, or the like. |
| reticence |
the state or quality of being hesitant to speak out; reserve. |
| revelry |
noisy merrymaking. |
| rudiment |
(often plural) something in an initial, imperfect, or undeveloped form. |
| sordid |
morally bad; ignoble or base. |