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affect to influence, produce a change in; to have an effect on affectionate tender and loving beneficent doing good out of kindly motives defect short coming; imperfection; flaw,fault;blemish defection desertion;abandoment of loyalty,duty, princaples, etc. defector one who forsakes a group, cause,country, etc. facsimile an exact reproduction or copy (not used for living things) malefactor an evildoer;criminal defer to yeild to the decision, opinion, or whishes of another infer to deduce; to draw a conclusion based on evidence inference logical conclusion; deduction deferential very respectful and courteous profligate spending money recklessly; extremely wasteful afflict to cause pain or suffering to affliction pain, suffering, or distress caused by illness, misfortune, loss confluence the outflow of a sewer, sewage tank, etc disfigure to hurt the apperance or attractiveness of;mar; deface conformity action in accordance with rules, customs conformist one who does what the majority does, not thinking for himself misinform to supply with false or misleading information centrifugal moving away from the center subterfuge a trick or deception used to evade something difficult or unpleasant dysfunctional showing abnormal or impaired functioning malfunction to fail to function as it should heterogeneous composed of unrelated or unlike parts; varied homogeneous composed of similar or identical elements; uniform genealogy descent from an ancestor; lineage; family tree gratify to give pleasure or satisfaction to ingrate an ungrateful person aggregation a group or mass of distinct things or individuals gregarious fond of the company of others; sociable segregate to isolate; to separate from others habitat native environment habitual customary; usual; done or caused by habit coherent logically connected; consistent; intelligible inherent innate; basic; inborn; existing as a natural and inseparable part adherence devotion and support adherent a supporter or follower interject interrupt with; insert jettison to throw (goods) overboard trajectory the curved path of something hurtling through space abject miserable; wretched injunction a legal order from a court commanding a given action to be done or not done jurisdiction authority or legal power to hear and decide cases justification a fact or argument that shows why an action was the right thing to do; a good excuse justify to show to be just or reasonable; to give a good excuse for unilateral involving only one side; obligating only one of several liberal generous; abundant; broad-minded; favoring reform; progressive libertine a person unrestrained by morality;a rake sublime majestic; inspiring awe or great admiration subliminal subconcious; too slight to be precieved literati scholarly or learned people; intelligentsia obliterate destroy; blot out; erase allocate to set apart for a specific purpose; to distribute by a plan circumlocution a long or roundabout way of expressing something elude to avoid or escape from; evade interlude anything that fills time between two events ludicrous ridiculous; laughable; foolish; absurd abhor loathe, scorn, reject, hate amicable friendly in tone amity friendship, esp. between nations amorous inclined to love, esp. sexual enamored of inflamed with love of; passionate about equanimity calmness; composure; evenness of mind, esp. under stress annuity a set amount of money one receives once a year biennial occurring every two years adept skilled, expert, proficient inept unskilled, inappropriate, foolish, bungling, awkward asteroid rock that orbits the sun astrologer one who divines the supposed influences of the stars upon human affairs audible capable of being heard audit to attend a course without expecting credit auditor who examines financial records to check their accuracy audition a trial performance to evaluate an entertainer's merits autocrat person ruling with unlimited authority automaton a robot-like machine; a person acting mechanically autonomous self-governing; free; independent autonomy the right of self-government; independence autopsy medical examination of a corpse to determine the cause of death bellicose inclined to start quarrels; warlike belligerence an aggressive, hostile, or combative attitude brevity briefness in speech or writing; conciseness eccentric odd or unusual in clothing, behavior, etc.; peculiar; strange egocentric concerned too much with one's own activities or needs; selfish ascertain to find out or learn with certainty certify to confirm officially (by someone with official standing) as being true or as meeting a certain standard (often by issuing a certificate) recipient one who receives decline to refuse an offer inclination a leaning; a preference coalesce to unite into a whole; fuse; grow or blend together communal used in common; belonging to the people of a community; public perturb disturb or trouble greatly turbid (used for water) muddy; having the sediment stirred up turbulent unruly; agitated; violently disturbed cadaver a dead body, usu. intended for dissection cadaverous pale; gaunt; looking like a courps candor forthrightness, honesty conceited having too high opinion of one's abilities, worth, etc; vain perceptive insightful and observant; quick to understand precept able or inclined to accept ideas and suggestions deceptive intended or intending to deceive or trick concede to admit reluctantly as true or real concession the admitting of a point claimed in argument; something yeilded intercede meditate in a dispute (in an argument); plead on anothers behalf (for someone) precedent a model or example that may followed or referred to later accord to grant or bestow on (to give someone an honor or a right) corpse dead body corpus a collection of writings of a particular kind or on a particular subject discrepancy lack of agreement; inconsistency (between things which should be the same) decry to denounce as being wrong or bad; to condemn openly accumulation material collected or gathered by successive additions cumulative increasing steadily or in stages curative curing; having the power to cure excursion short journey for health or pleasure precursor an earlier type or example of something or someone disdain to regard or treat with contempt or scorn as unworthy demagogue a person who stirs up the people by appeals to emotion and prejudice in order to become a leader and achieve selfish ends dermatologist skin specialist hypodermic injected under the skin taxidermy the art of stuffing and mounting the skins of animals indict to charge with a crime, usually by a grand jury conduit a pipe or channel for conveying liquids; a tube for electric wires induce to persuade; to bring out induct to bring formally into a group or organization inducement motive or incentive; something offered as a reason for doing something seduce tempt to evil or wrong-doing; lead astray subdue conquer; control; repress traduce defame; slander; vilify; tell damaging lies about infirmary a place for the care of the sick or injured or infirm