VOCAB 1-25

1. origin - beginning, first came from
2. myth - made up story
3. archetypes - similarities from culture to culture
4. hindsight - to look backwards in history
5. assimilate - to become like the others
6. stereotypes - general beliefs about groups of people
7. cyclical - to go around and around without any change
8. catch 22 - danged if you do, danged if you don't
9. unlearn - the things you think are right aren't necessarily true
10. redundant - to do or say the same thing over and over the same way. 
11. paradox - natural contradiction to itself... jumbo shrimp
12. purge - to get rid of violently
13. illusion - when you think you see something that is not really there
14. allusion - reference to something in art, literature, or history
15. grapple - wrestle
16. Rhetorical question - not meant to be answered, just considered
17. moral - lesson that teaches
18. utopia - perfect society
19. theocracy - Government based religion
20. specters - ghosts
21. pagan - one without belief in God
22. Heathen - one who practices a belief without God
23. bliss - ultimate happiness
24. pious - deeply, deeply, religious
25. pecking order - societal order of hierarchy
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