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Choose the correct one-word substitution for: “A person who renounces his religious faith.”

1. Dissenter
2. Skeptic
3. Iconoclast
4. Apostate

Correct answer: Apostate

Solution

An “apostate” is a person who renounces or abandons a religious faith. The other options do not mean this.

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