| apostate |
a person who abandons his or her religious faith, principles, cause, or the like. |
| banter |
joking, clever conversation. |
| circumstantial |
relevant but not essential; incidental. |
| dysfunctional |
of a relationship, family, or social group, not working normally or in a way beneficial to all. |
| emend |
to correct or improve (written text), especially by removing errors; edit. |
| fragmentary |
consisting of fragments; incomplete or disconnected. |
| heresy |
a religious belief or doctrine not in keeping with the established doctrine of a church, especially the rejection of or dissent from any aspect of Roman Catholic Church dogma by a baptized church member. |
| integral |
being an essential part of the whole. |
| nurture |
to care for and encourage the growth and development of (a living thing). |
| pessimist |
one who usually expects a bad outcome. |
| proletariat |
the working class, especially those who lack capital and must sell their usually unskilled labor in order to survive. |
| referent |
anything in the real world or in the imagination that is symbolized or referred to by a word or other symbol. |
| roster |
a list of names of individuals or groups belonging to or participating in an organization, class, military or police unit, or the like. |
| taciturn |
habitually silent and uncommunicative. |
| tenet |
any belief, opinion, doctrine, or the like, that a person or especially an organization holds as being true. |