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despondent: adj. feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom:
drone: n. the male of the honeybee and other bees, stingless and making no honey.
emanate: v. . to flow out, issue, or proceed, as from a source or origin; come forth; originate.
engender: v. to produce, cause, or give rise to
exult: v.to show or feel a lively or triumphant joy; rejoice exceedingly; be highly elated or jubilant:
incredulous: adj. not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
inscrutable: adj. incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
minutia: n. precise details; small or trifling matters
nihilism: n. total rejection of established laws and institutions
omnipotent: adj. almighty or infinite in power, as God.
overt: adj. open to view or knowledge; not concealed or secret
propitiate: v. to make favorably inclined
query: n. a question; an inquiry.
recompense: v. to repay; remunerate; reward, as for service, aid, etc
replete: adj. abundantly supplied or provided; filled
reprove: v. to prove again
repugnant: adj.distasteful, objectionable, or offensive
sardonic: adj. characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
satiate: v. to supply with anything to excess, so as to disgust or weary; surfeit.
seer: n. a person who sees; observer.
squalid: adj. foul and repulsive, as from lack of care or cleanliness; neglected and filthy.
stolid: adj. not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive
throng: n. a multitude of people crowded or assembled together; crowd.
totalitarian: adj. of or pertaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate parties of differing opinion and that exercises dictatorial control over many aspects of life.
unilateral: adj. relating to, occurring on, or involving one side only
usurp: v. to seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right: