| appease |
to cause to become calmer by meeting demands. |
| contiguous |
in contact; touching; adjoining. |
| designate |
to choose for a particular job or purpose. |
| exalt |
to honor or glorify. |
| fervor |
strength, heatedness, or intensity of feeling; impassioned enthusiasm. |
| fragility |
the condition of being delicate and easily broken. |
| ingrate |
an ungrateful person. |
| intolerance |
inability or unwillingness to accept the existence or validity of opinions, beliefs, customs, and practices different from one's own. |
| laity |
the body of members of a religious group who are not part of the clergy. |
| lenient |
not strict with rules; tolerant. |
| recurrent |
happening again or repeatedly. |
| revere |
to respect or admire greatly. |
| rite |
a formal ceremonial procedure prescribed or customary for a specific occasion, as in religious worship. |
| taciturn |
habitually silent and uncommunicative. |
| unvaried |
marked by a lack of diversity; never changing. |