| advocate |
to speak or act in favor of. |
| castigate |
to punish or rebuke, as with severe public criticism; chastise. |
| circumscribe |
to keep within bounds; confine; restrict. |
| conciliatory |
tending to placate or reconcile. |
| dole |
to deal out or distribute (food, money, or the like) in small amounts to needy people (usually followed by "out"). |
| infighting |
conflict or rivalry, often concealed, within an organization or group. |
| misconception |
an error in understanding; wrong notion or idea. |
| myriad |
of or constituting a great but unspecified number; numberless. |
| nomenclature |
a specialized system or set of names and terms used in a particular science, art, or other field of study or training. |
| patrician |
of, concerning, or belonging to an aristocratic class. |
| poignant |
deeply touching; arousing strong emotion, especially sadness or sympathy; piercing; penetrating. |
| rectify |
to put right or correct (a bad situation, injustice, or the like); remedy. |
| sunder |
to tear, force, or break apart; divide. |
| synthesis |
the combining of discrete elements into a unified compound or entity, or the unified whole formed by such a combining. |
| uncharacteristic |
not typical of a particular person, group, or thing, and therefore notable. |