| admonish |
to warn or caution. |
| atheist |
a person who believes that there is no god or gods. |
| audacity |
courage or boldness often combined with daring or recklessness. |
| chasm |
a deep crack in the earth's surface. |
| chastise |
to punish, often corporally. |
| contraband |
goods banned by law from being imported or exported. |
| discontinuous |
interrupted or intermittent; not without pause or break. |
| 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. |
| intolerant |
not able or not willing to accept different opinions, beliefs, customs, or people; not tolerant. |
| mendacity |
a tendency to lie; untruthfulness. |
| nonconformity |
refusal or failure to adjust one's behavior and actions to accord or comply with societal customs, values, or the like. |
| orthodox |
of, having to do with, or following what is believed or practiced by most other people. |
| ravish |
to overwhelm with emotion or sensation; enrapture. |
| subtlety |
the quality or condition of being difficult to detect or define. |
| underscore |
to emphasize by, or as if by, drawing a line beneath. |