| backwater |
any place that is seen as primitive, unchanging, or stagnant. |
| contend |
to struggle; fight against difficulties or opposition. |
| discontinuous |
interrupted or intermittent; not without pause or break. |
| dupe |
a gullible person; one who can be readily misled or fooled. |
| heresy |
a religious belief or doctrine not in keeping with the established doctrine of a church, especially the rejection of or dissent from any aspect of Roman Catholic Church dogma by a baptized church member. |
| induce |
to persuade or influence, as to a course of action. |
| negligible |
so small or unimportant as to be of no account; trifling or insignificant. |
| nihilism |
the belief that existence has no meaning or purpose. |
| proponent |
one who proposes or favors an idea, doctrine, course of action, or the like. |
| protuberance |
that which projects; bulge or bump. |
| recipient |
one who accepts something that has been sent or given, or one who has been awarded something. |
| sheaf |
a bound bundle of cut grain. |
| tome |
a large thick book, often one of a multivolume scholarly work. |
| tribulation |
severe suffering or affliction; distress. |
| unregulated |
not subject to rules or constraints. |