World History CP Vocab List 2 (24-25)

• Annul


  to declare invalid
• Predestination


  concept that God has already determined who is saved
• Rhetoric


  persuasive speech or writing
• Lutheranism


  religious doctrine that Martin Luther developed
• Patron


  is a wealthy supporter of the arts
• Salvation


  the state of being saved (that is, going to heaven) through faith alone or through faith and good works
• Humanism


  intellectual movement based on the studies of the Humanities
• Mercenary


  soldiers who fight primarily for money or to pay
• Indulgence


  a release from all or part of punishment for sin by the Catholic Church, reducing time in purgatory after death.
• Vernacular


  the language of everyday speech in a particular region