beneficiary |
one who receives or is formally designated to receive money or property, as from a will or insurance policy. |
evenhanded |
fair and impartial in the treatment of others; equitable. |
faction |
a group or party within, and often at odds with, a larger organization. |
felicitous |
well-suited or apt; very appropriate. |
gaseous |
in the form of or resembling a gas. |
impenetrable |
impossible to enter; impervious. |
impregnate |
to make (a female animal or human) pregnant, or to make (an egg) fertile. |
infidelity |
unfaithfulness, especially to marital vows; adultery. |
inveterate |
persisting in a habit, action, feeling, or the like. |
irreverent |
not having or showing respect. |
jabber |
to speak or make sounds like speech, quickly or at length, but without making much sense or creating much interest in the listener; babble. |
raconteur |
one who is talented in storytelling. |
regent |
one who governs in place of a disabled or underage ruler. |
sporadic |
occurring irregularly or in a thinly scattered manner in time or space. |
uncharted |
not recorded on any map; unexplored or unknown, as some geographical area or field of research. |