Accentuate

[airk-cen-chu-wait]

–verb (used with object), -at⋅ed, -at⋅ing.
1. to give emphasis or prominence to.
2. to mark or pronounce with an accent.

Advent

noun

1. a coming into place, view, or being; arrival: the advent of the holiday season.
2. (usually initial capital letter) the coming of Christ into the world.
3. (initial capital letter) the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas, observed in commemoration of the coming of Christ into the world.

Abstinence

[ab-stern-nence]

noun
1: voluntary forbearance especially from indulgence of an appetite or craving or from eating some foods

2 a: habitual abstaining from intoxicating beverages b: abstention from sexual intercourse

Harangue

[her-rang]

noun
1. a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.
2. a long, passionate, and vehement speech, esp. one delivered before a public gathering.
3. any long, pompous speech or writing of a tediously hortatory or didactic nature; sermonizing lecture or discourse.

–verb (used with object)
4. to address in a harangue.

–verb (used without object)
5. to deliver a harangue.


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