DENYING OF SELF

1. abnegate – a) to refuse or deny oneself (rights, conveniences, etc.), renounce, reject; b) to relinquish, give up

2. Spartan – a) sternly disciplined and rigorously frugal or austere; b) brave, undaunted

3. abstain – a) to hold oneself back voluntarily, esp. from something regarded as improper or unhealthy; b) to forbear, desist, cease

4. Stoic – of or pertaining to the school of philosophy founded by Zeno, who taught that people should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity; b) impassivity, fortitude, imperturbable, cool, indifferent,

5. ascetic – a) a person who dedicates his life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons; b) a person who leads an austerely simple life, esp. one who abstains from the normal pleasures of life or denies himself or herself material satisfaction; a monk, hermit; c) anchorite, recluse, cenobite, strict, frugal, plain

6. temperate – a) moderate or self-restrained, not extreme in opinion, statement; b) moderate as regards indulgence or appetite or passion, esp. in the use of alcoholic liquors; c) not excessive in degree, as things, qualities, etc.; d) sober, dispassionate, abstemious, abstinent

7. abstemiou s – a) sparing or moderate in eating and drinking, temperate in diet; b) characterized by abstinence; c) sparing, ascetic, nonindulgent

8. celibate – a) a person who abstains from sexual relations; b) a person who remains unmarried for religious reasons; c) pertaining to sexual abstention or a religious vow not to marry

WALKING ABOUT

1. ambulatory – a) of, pertaining to or capable of walking; b) adapted for walking, as the limbs of humans or animals; c) moving about or from place to place, not stationary; d) not fixed, alterable or revocable

2. itinerant – a) traveling from place to place esp. in a regular circuit, as a preacher or judge or sales representative; journeying; b) characterized by alternating periods of working and wandering; c) a person who travels from place to place on duty or business

3. peripatetic – a) walking or traveling about, itinerant; b) a person who walks and travels about; c) pertaining to Aristotle, who wandered and taught in Athens

4. nomadic – a) pertaining to or characterized of nomads, people who have no permanent home and wander from place to place, like those who pasture flocks, or Bedouins in the desert

INSINCERE

1. disingenuous – a) lacking in frankness, candor or sincerity; falsely or hypocritically ingenuous

2. ostensible – outwardly appearing as such; professed, pretended; apparent, evident or conspicuous

3. dissemble – a) to give a false or misleading appearance to something; b) to conceal the true or real nature of; c) to conceal one’s true motives, thoughts, etc. by some pretense; speak or act hypocritically

4. unctuous – a) characterized by excessive piety or moralistic fervor; b) having an affected manner, excessively suave, smooth or smug

5. fulsome – a) offensive to good taste, esp. as being excessive, overdone or gross; b) disgusting, sickening, repulsive; c) excessively or insincerely lavish

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