Vocabulary in Romans 1-5

In reviewing Romans 1 - 5, I was reminded there is a LOT of advanced vocabulary. Perhaps these user-friendly definitions to these terms will help with your rereading of the text.

• accountable: responsibility or capable of being held responsible for something; capable of being explained; being held to account, scrutinized, and being required to give an account or explanation
• atonement: simply at-one-ment, i.e., the state of being at one or being reconciled, so that atonement is reconciliation. Thus it is used to denote the effect which flows from the death of Christ.
• blasphemed: speaking evil of God
• contempt: a manner that is generally disrespectful
  deceit: lying, cheating; doing something dishonest
• degrading: corrupting: harmful to the mind or morals
• depraved/depravity corruption: moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
• divine: being or having the nature of God
• embodiment: giving concrete form to an abstract concept
• forbearance: patience: good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
• futile: serving no useful purpose, frivolous, fruitless
• insolent: impudent: marked by casual disrespect
• justified: absolved: let off the hook
• perseverance: doggedness: persistent determination; not giving up
• provision: the activity of supplying or providing something
• reconcile: change for the better a relationship between two or more persons
• slander: words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another
• transgression: the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle
• trespass: violate a law of God or a moral law
• wickedness: evil: morally objectionable behavior