What does it mean to be modern?

vocabulary revision

WARNING many lists are of dubious usefulness. Vocabulary should be learnt in context. What follows is just a quick revision list and is no substitute for careful dictionary work and your own notetaking.

Match the key words with their definitions:

1. overlook
2. foundation
3. sensibility
4. impoverished
5. sacred
6. outrageous
7. foster
8. heretical
9. wisdom
10. cognitive
11. come on the scene
12. acute
13. artefact
14. heir

a. way of thinking
b. very poor
c. what a building rests on
d. holy, of great religious significance
e. to fail to notice
f. to cultivate
g. critical of a religious authority
h. shocking
i. to do with knowledge
j. knowledge
k. something humanly made
l. someone who inherits
m. strong
n. to appear


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