| agrarian |
pertaining to the ownership, tenure, or cultivation of land. |
| alimony |
money that a court orders one member of a divorced couple to pay to the other. |
| archives |
the body of records or information pertaining to an institution, organization, or historical figure. |
| buttress |
a structure built to give support to the outside of a building or a wall. |
| emancipate |
to free from slavery or other control. |
| estrange |
to cause (someone) to change from friendly and sympathetic to hostile or indifferent; alienate. |
| miscreant |
evil or malevolent; villainous. |
| oscillate |
to swing steadily and repeatedly back and forth. |
| patronize |
to act in an offensively superior manner toward. |
| recurrence |
an act or instance of happening or appearing again or repeatedly. |
| rigorous |
showing strictness or sternness. |
| speculative |
of, pertaining to, or based on conjecture or theorizing. |
| sporadic |
occurring irregularly or in a thinly scattered manner in time or space. |
| vouch |
to promise to be true, real, or correct (usually followed by "for"). |
| waif |
a child without a home or friends. |