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Year 8 LAC words


September

 

Friend           A person you know well and regard
                       with affection and trust.

Quality          An essential and distinguishing
                  attribute of something or someone.

Miracle          Any amazing or wonderful occurrence.

 
 
 
October
 
Denial            The act of disowning.
 
Samaritan    A group of people who lived in Samaria at the time of Jesus,
                   considered by the Jews to be inferior.
 
Levite          A descendant of the tribe of Levi. They performed certain
                   duties in connection with the Temple.
 
 
 
November
 
Pentateuch     This was the Jewish Law and consisted
                     of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers
                     and Deuteronomy.
 
Massoretes     The Massoretes were groups of scribes
                     and Bible scholars.
 
Oral tradition  The spoken relation and preservation,  
                      from one generation to the next, of a
                      people’scultural history and ancestry,
                      often by a storyteller in narrative form.
 
 
 
December
 
Census              An official counting especially of a country’s
                     inhabitants.
 
Annunciation   The revelation to Mary, the mother of Jesus
                      by the angel Gabriel that she would conceive
                      a child to be born the Son of God.
 
Magi               The three Wise Men, three Kings or Kings
                      from the East who visited Jesus.
 
 
 
January
 
Translate         Restate (words) from one language
                      into another language.
 
Smuggling       Secretly importing prohibited goods.
 
Heresy            An introduced change to some system
                     of belief, especially a religion,
                     that conflicts with the previously
                     established belief.
 
 
 
February
 
Fertile Crescent    A region near the Mediterranean Sea that is in
                           the shape of crescent or half moon.
 
Synagogue           The place of worship for a Jewish congregation.
 
Zealots                 Members of an ancient Jewish sect in Judea
                           who fought to the death against the Romans.
 
 
 
March
 
Healing         The act or process of curing or of restoring to health.
 
Leprosy         A chronic bacterial disease affecting mainly skin
                    and nerves.
 
 
 
April
 
Sanhedrin       The Sanhedrin were the council of Jews at Jerusalem.
 
 
Blasphemy      To speak against God or religious doctrine.
 
 
Crucifixion       Crucifixion was an ancient method of execution in
                      which the victim’s hands and feet were bound
                      and nailed to a cross.

 

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