| Term | Definition |
|---|
| crucible | a container of metal to carry hearing substances to high temperatures; severe test or trial |
| inert | having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance |
| somber | gloomy, depressing, or dismal |
| potent | powerful, mighty and persuasive |
| predilection | a tendency to think favorably of something in particular |
| ideology | the body of doctrine, myth, belief, that guides an idividual, social movement, institutuib, class, or large group |
| perpetrate | to commit, as a crime or other antisocial act |
| apprehension | anticipation of adversity or misfortune, suspicion or fear of future trouble or evil |
| propriety | conformity to established standards of good or proper behavior or manners |
| remiss | negligent, careless, slow in performing duties |
| vindicitive | disposed or inclined to revenge; vengeful |
| corroborate | to make more certain; confirm |
| abyss | deep ass hole |
| conjure | to affect or influence by or as if by invocation or spell |
| hypocrite | person who pretends but is a bitch about it |
| callous | to make hard; insensitive |
| calumny | a false and malicious statement designed to injure the reputation of someone or something |
| prodigious | extraordinary in size, amount, force, power |
| partisan | an adherent or supporter of a person, group, party, or cause, esp. a person who shows a biased, emotional allegiance |
| arbitrate | to decide as arbitrator or arbiter; determine. |
| delusion | the act to mislead the mind or judgment of; deceive |
| ecstatic | really excited |
| ameliorate | to make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory, improve, meliorate |
| conspiracy | eveil, unlawful, treacherous, or surreptitious plan formulated in secret by two or more persons; plot. |
| anonymity | act of being anonymous |
| gaunt | extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture, emaciated |
| perjury | the willful giving of false testimony under oath or affirmation, lying in court |
| contempt | bad, feeling which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless |
| effrontery | shameless boldness |
| depostiion | removal from an office or position |
| probity | complete and confirmed integrity; honest |
| qualm | an uneasy feeling of pang or conscience as to conduct; compunction |
| contention | a struggling together in opposition; strife |
| providence | a manifestation of divine care or direction |
| inquire | to seek information by questioning |
| summon | to call upon to do something specified |
| naught | lost, nothing, ruined |
| utmost | being at the farthest |
| conciliatory | to overcome the distrust, placate |
| flounder | to struggle clumsily or helplessly |
| reprieve | to rellieve temporarily from any evil |
| beguile | to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude |
| sibilance | a hissing quality or sound |
| adamant | utterly unyielding in attitude or opinion in spite of all appeals, urgings |
| belie | to show to be false; contradict |
| incredulously | indication or showing unbelief |
| purge | to ride whatever is impure or undesirable, cleanse, purifiy |
| penitence | the state of regret for one's wrong doing or sinning; contrition; repentance |
| rescind | to annul, revoke, repeal |
| defy | the challenge the power of |
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