| apprehensive |
feeling fearful about future events. |
| asperity |
harshness or roughness, especially of tone or manner. |
| baneful |
causing or leading to death, destruction, or ruin; harmful or deadly. |
| Byzantine |
characterized by complexity and intrigue. |
| corporeal |
having to do with a physical body; bodily. |
| desiccate |
to remove the moisture in (food) so as to preserve it. |
| determinism |
the belief or teaching that every effect, including human thoughts and actions, is completely and predictably brought about by preceding causes and that, therefore, free will does not exist. |
| forbear |
to keep or abstain from (an action or utterance). |
| fungible |
interchangeable. |
| granulate |
to make into small particles or grains. |
| iatrogenic |
caused by a physician or medical treatment, especially from drugs or surgery. |
| intersperse |
to place or scatter among other things. |
| reprisal |
injury inflicted in retaliation for injury received, as in war; revenge. |
| savor |
to give an impression; hint (usually followed by "of"). |
| sequester |
to remove into protection and isolation; seclude. |