VOCABULARY 1-15

1. summit - highest point
2. origin - beginning
3. myth - story that's told as it's real, but it is not
4. cyclical - to go around and around
5. communal - everyone owns it
6. Digress - to move, wander, drift, stray, to leave what you were talking about
7. air - the aura around you
8. Monotonous - having the quality of being monotone
9. assimilate - to be like the others
10. grapple - to wrestle with
11. utopia - perfect society
12. crucible - - device (pot) meant to melt metals
13. specter - ghost
14. Theocracy - government based on religion
15. Pious - deeply religious
16. Dogmatic - so deeply opinionated, so set in your ways you will not change
17. gallows - place where people hang
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