| Term | Definition |
|---|
| virulent | extremely poisonous or injurious, harsh or corrosive in tone, infectious |
| phalanx | any closely ranked crowd of people, any of the bones (or phalanges) of the fingers or toes, a body of troops in close array |
| lexicons | a language user's knowledge of words, a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them |
| immutable | not subject or susceptible to change or variation in form or quality or nature |
| mestizos | A person of mixed racial ancestry, especially of mixed European and Native American ancestry |
| cacique | black-and-red or black-and-yellow orioles of the American tropics, a chief of an Indian clan or tribe in Mexico and the West Indies |
| hegemony | the domination of one state over its allies |
| bellicosity | Warlike or hostile in manner or temperament |
| prostration | the act of assuming a prostrate position, abject submission, a condition marked by dizziness and nausea and weakness caused by depletion of body fluids and electrolytes |
| loquacious | full of trivial conversation |
| punctilious | Strictly attentive to minute details of form in action or conduct, Precise; scrupulous |
| per diem | one every day |
| coquetry | playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest |
| atavistic | characteristic of an atavist, The reappearance of a characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence, usually caused by the chance recombination of genes |
| portcullis | gate consisting of an iron or wooden grating that hangs in the entry to a castle or fortified town |
| pariah | a person who is rejected (from society or home) |
| peripatetic | a person who walks from place to place, a follower of Aristotle or an adherent of Aristotelianism, traveling especially on foot |
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