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| A remedy for all diseases, evils, or difficulties; a cure-all |
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| A representative or example of a class or type: “He is seen... as the epitome of the hawkish, right-of-center intellectual” (Paul Kennedy) |
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| a thin flexible disk (as in a microphone or loudspeaker) that vibrates when struck by sound waves or that vibrates to generate sound waves |
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| a radiant light around the head or body of a representation of a sacred personage |
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| a theory denying that an event or object has a supernatural significance; specifically : the doctrine that scientific laws are adequate to account for all phenomena |
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| a belief or orientation agreeing with conventional standards |
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| To make a preliminary inspection of, especially in order to gather military information |
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| 1 a : a property of matter by which it remains at rest or in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force b : an analogous property of other physical quantities (as electricity) |
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| To suspend or cause to suspend activity temporarily or periodically |
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| 1 : to bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight |
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| The state or quality of being incredulous; disbelief |
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| 1 : gross injustice :wickedness |
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| Matter-of-fact; straightforward; Lacking in imagination and spirit; dull |
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| of, relating to, or resembling that of sugar |
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| Given or granted without return or recompense; unearned. |
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| the lowest female voice or voice part, intermediate between soprano and tenor. |
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| to make objection, esp. on the grounds of scruples; take exception; object: They wanted to make him the treasurer, but he demurred. |
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| an elementary book containing a summary of the principles of the Christian religion, esp. as maintained by a particular church, in the form of questions and answers |
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| light, bantering talk or writing. |
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| a : an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy b : a cleverly contrived trick or scheme for gaining an end |
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| to supply with anything to excess, so as to disgust or weary; surfeit. |
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| the state or quality of being verbose; superfluity of words; wordiness: His speeches were always marred by verbosity. |
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| practicing usury; charging illegal or exorbitant rates of interest for the use of money: a usurious moneylender. |
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| having the nature of or resembling jelly, esp. in consistency; jellylike |
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| moderately warm; lukewarm: tepid water. |
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| deserving praise, reward, esteem, etc.; praiseworthy: to receive a gift for meritorious service. |
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| capacity, esp. in female animals, of producing young in great numbers. |
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| willing to believe or trust too readily, esp. without proper or adequate evidence; gullible. |
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| characterized by unrestrained emotion |
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| not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit. |
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| adverse in tendency or effect; unfavorable; harmful: a climate inimical to health |
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| any even-toed, hoofed mammal of the suborder Ruminantia, being comprised of cloven-hoofed, cud-chewing quadrupeds, and including, besides domestic cattle, bison, buffalo, deer, antelopes, giraffes, camels, and chevrotains. |
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| a person who follows or upholds a leader, cause, etc.; supporter; follower. |
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| a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few |
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| divided into a usually specified number of part |
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| existing or being such in title only; nominal; having the title but none of the associated duties, powers, etc.: the titular head of the company. |
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| hardened like or into bone. |
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| characterized by, exhibiting, or of the nature of imitation or mimicry: mimetic gestures. |
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| large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful: copious amounts of food. |
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| a tough, lawless person; roughneck; bully. |
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| lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation. |
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| abounding in pithy aphorisms or maxims: a sententious book. |
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| brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression; full of vigor, substance, or meaning; terse; forcible: a pithy observation. |
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| a person who prophesies doom or disaster |
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| shortness of time or duration; briefness: the brevity of human life. |
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| smoothly elegant; polished |
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| a concise statement of a principle |
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| an expression of a general truth or principle, esp. an aphoristic or sententious one: the maxims of La Rochefoucauld |
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| of a timid disposition; fearful |
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| to cause to lose flesh so as to become very thin |
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| done, shown, used, etc., maliciously or unjustifiably: a wanton attack; wanton cruelty |
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| zealous; ardent; impassioned: a vehement defense; vehement enthusiasm |
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