| Term | Definition |
|---|
| indigenous | people or things that are native to a region |
| interloper | people who intrude where they aren't wanted |
| extraneous | coming from the outside; strong sense of irrelevant |
| inherent | stuck into the nature of the thing integral to its being |
| germane | relevant; suitable; closely connected |
| pariah | social outcast |
| endemic | native or common to or peculiar to a specific region or abstract area |
| intrinsic | inherent; innate |
| ostracize | to make someone a pariah |
| tangential | slightly touching or barely connected |
| ominous | a foreshadowing of the future, always describing the threatening |
| portentous | something carrying a sign of the threats of the future; pompous |
| inauspicious | predicts something negatively |
| imminent | something about to occur |
| impending | something threatening or not, the near arrival of the event hanging over you |
| minatory | threatening |
| presage | forewarning, an ominous feeling, a prediction |
| bode | referring to an omen |
| propitiate | actions to appease or calm forces that might oppose a favorable outcome |
| harbinger | forerunner; an early warning or messenger of what's to come |
| squander | to spend extravagantly |
| dissipation | literal scattering or dispersing; specialized sense of scattering one's energy through unnecessary pleasures |
| disenfranchise | to lose the right to vote |
| forfeiture | idea of a penalty, a giving up of something in one's possession |
| denude | trees that lose their leaves |
| privation | deprived |
| divest | getting rid of |
| renounce | to give it up |
| elegiac | describes a feeling of sadness at many types of losses |
| bereave | to leave desolate, usually by death |
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