| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Tempestuous | stormy, turbulant |
| Unconscionable | unscrupulous; shockingly unfair or unjust |
| Paramount | supreme, of chief importance |
| Acclivity | an incline or upward slope, theascending side of a hill |
| Veritable | being without question, often used figuratively |
| Deride | to laugh at contemptuously, to make fun of |
| Rarefy | to make rare, thin, or less dense |
| Complacent | self-satisfied, smug |
| Euthanasia | the practice of ending the life of termanally ill individuals; assisted suicide |
| Presage | something that foreshadows; a feeling of what will happen in the future |
| Worst | to gain the advantage over; to defeat |
| Admonish | to caution or warn gently in order to correct something |
| Sacrilegious | impious, irreverent toward what is held to be sacred or holy |
| Blithely | merrily, lightheartedly cheerful; without appropriate thought |
| Filibuster | to use obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speech making, in order to delay something |
| Celerity | speed, haste |
| Pathogenic | causing disease |
| Appropriate | at assign a particular purpose, allocate |
| Secular | not specifically pertaining to religion, relating to the world |
| Replete | abundantly supplied, complete |
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