In mistborn their are a lot of words that may confuse you. So here is a list of all of the words that have different meanings then they might have in other books.
Mistborn: a person who has acsees to all of the allowmantic powers.
alomancer: a person who can burn all the allomantic metals to give them power.
obligator: a preast that works for the steel ministry usually leasing skaa or making deals with the nobility. the more intrscet their eye tattoos the higher up in the ministry they are.
steel Inquisitor: a high obligator transformed by metal spikes through their body.
skaa: a slave owned by the Lord ruler.
burn: a term used if one is going to use up an allomantic metal reserve.
atuim: a rare metal that when burned by an allomancer makes the see the future.