Renaissance

2. common language understood by people of the area/region.
5. the mastery of spoken or written language to affect a particular audience in an intended and predictable manner.
6. God's eternal decree to bestow an irresistible grace on people whom He had chosen from eternity.
8. an emphasis on living well in this world and understanding better the activities of this world—political, economic, social and intellectual.

1. distinctive feature of the penitential system of both the Western medieval and the Roman Catholic Church that granted full or partial remission of the punishment of sin.
3. a government ruled by religious leaders who claim God's authority.
4. a person who pays for or commissions works of art
5. the culture and style of art and architecture developed during the Renaissance.
7. an intellectual movement of the 15th century when there was a new interest in the classical world and studies which focussed less on religion and more on what it is to be human