| affiliate |
to join as a member or smaller branch of (usually followed by "with"). |
| artifice |
a shrewd or clever trick. |
| cede |
to give up or surrender, especially formally. |
| cozen |
to deceive or trick; swindle. |
| egotist |
a conceited person; braggart. |
| entail |
to call for or bring about as a necessary accompaniment; necessarily involve. |
| integral |
being an essential part of the whole. |
| mettlesome |
spirited or courageous. |
| plagiarize |
to wrongfully and deliberately claim as one's own (the ideas, words, or the like) of someone else. |
| preempt |
to seize or appropriate ahead of others. |
| procure |
to get or get hold of by effort; obtain. |
| prostrate |
to lie or throw (oneself) flat on the ground, especially face down in an act of humility, worship, or the like. |
| putrid |
of, concerning, or exhibiting rot or decomposition. |
| unfrock |
to deprive of priestly status. |
| vignette |
a brief written or musical sketch, or brief film scene, that describes or characterizes a person, incident, situation, or the like. |