| adverse |
not helpful to one's wishes or interests. |
| alien |
someone who lives in a country who is not a citizen of that country. |
| bias |
an opinion or liking that does not let one be fair; prejudice. |
| cameo |
a stone carved so as to leave a slightly raised image of one color and a background of another, often worn as jewelry. |
| chaos |
a state, condition, or place of complete confusion or disorder. |
| crusade |
(often capitalized) any of the wars between European Catholics and Middle Eastern Muslims between 1095 and 1291. During these wars, the Catholics tried to take territory away from the Muslims. |
| deploy |
to move, position, or distribute so as to make ready or effective for a particular purpose. |
| domination |
the act of controlling or governing by the use of power or influence. |
| dormant |
asleep, or in a state of rest that is similar to sleep. |
| emit |
to send out or give off. |
| eradicate |
to do away with completely; wipe out. |
| inflate |
to make larger or expand. |
| intermediate |
being or happening between two things, stages, positions, or persons; being in the middle. |
| rout1 |
a confused retreat of troops after they have been beaten. |
| subsist |
to stay alive or obtain the necessities of life (usually followed by "on"). |