Key terms & definitions

A Protestant movement seeking to remove remaining Catholic-style practices from the Church of England and make its worship and organisation more thoroughly Protestant.

Protestants who wanted further reform of the English Church and greater emphasis on godly behaviour.

An Israeli military ethical principle requiring force to be used only for its mission and only to the necessary extent, while protecting human dignity, non-combatants and prisoners.

What a writer intends a text to achieve, such as explaining a position or persuading readers to act.

What a writer seeks to achieve through a text, such as entertaining, persuading, criticising or presenting a particular image of themselves.

A sample deliberately selected because participants have a characteristic or experience relevant to the research.

Selecting participants because they have a particular characteristic or experience relevant to the research aim.

The cosmic Person in Rig Veda 10.90, whose sacrifice brings forth creation, including the four varnas.

One of the four legitimate aims of human life in Hinduism: dharma, artha, kama and moksha.

The four aims of human life in Hinduism: dharma, artha, kama and moksha.

The Crown’s power to obtain supplies and transport for royal needs, including compelling suppliers to sell goods at fixed prices.

A condition that encourages people to leave a place, such as unemployment, persecution or violence.

A condition in a person's place of origin that encourages them to leave.

A circumstance that encourages or forces someone to leave a place, such as unemployment or persecution.

Factors that drive people to leave a place, such as persecution, war or loss of livelihood.

A method of assembly in which a component is pushed into a closely fitting space and held without tools.

A normally open switch that closes its contacts while pressed and opens them again when released.

An attempt to overthrow a government by force.

Polyvinyl acetate: a water-based adhesive commonly used to bond porous timber surfaces. Standard grades are mainly suitable for dry indoor use.

A longitudinal seismic wave that can travel through solids and liquids.

A solid with a polygonal base and triangular faces that meet at one vertex.

A pointed mountain summit formed as three or more corries erode back towards one another.

A scaled diagram showing the relative biomass at each trophic level of a food chain.

A fast-moving flow of very hot gases, ash and rock fragments travelling down a volcano.

The rule $a^2+b^2=c^2$ for a right-angled triangle, where is its hypotenuse.

The relationship $\sin^2\theta+\cos^2\theta=1$, connecting the squared sine and cosine of the same angle.

A set of three positive integers $a$, $b$ and $c$ satisfying $a^2+b^2=c^2$. They can be the side lengths of a right-angled triangle.

The title of Apollo's priestess at Delphi, who delivered answers to people consulting his oracle.

A small container used to carry consecrated hosts, particularly when taking Holy Communion to people who are sick.

A small box or lidded container; the Shaft Grave V pyxis is a wooden box covered with gold plates.