- anarchy: total absence of government
- anarchy: lack of order; total confusion
- apprehend: to sieze; to arrest
- apprehend: to grasp the meaning of; to understand
- arraign: to bring before a court to face charges
- assimilate: to absorb into population
- assimilate: to take in a part or absorb into a whole
- bizarre: strikingly out of the ordinary; peculiar
- calamitous: disastrous
- calamity: an event that causes great suffering and harm; a disaster
- conspiracy: a joining with others to plan or carry out unlawful acts
- conspire: to plan together secretly to do something wrong or illegal
- conspire: to join or act together
- dissension: a difference in opinion; disagreement
- elapse: to pass or slip by (used with time)
- imminent: about to happen; likely to occur in the very near future
- interrogate: to ask questions of, especially in a thorough or formal manner
- interrogation: the act of questioning
- lionize: to treat as a celebrity
- meticulous: extremly careful; attentive to small details
- shackle: a ring or band put around the arm or leg to prevent free movement
- shackle: something that prevents free action
- shackle: to prevent freedom of action
- swelter: to suffer from or be overcome by great heat
- sweltering: very hot and humid; uncomfortable because of extremely hot weather