| annals |
a chronological record of events, usually year by year. |
| audacity |
courage or boldness often combined with daring or recklessness. |
| forthcoming |
about to appear or happen. |
| gentry |
people who come from families of high social standing. |
| interrelate |
to place in or come into a shared, mutual, or reciprocal relationship. |
| liberality |
an attitude of tolerance and respect for individual differences. |
| permissive |
allowing much, often excessive, freedom of behavior; lenient. |
| poignant |
deeply touching; arousing strong emotion, especially sadness or sympathy; piercing; penetrating. |
| prelude |
an introductory event or act; preface; preliminary. |
| seclude |
to keep apart from other people or activity. |
| stratify |
to assign categories or create divisions within (a society) according to a hierarchy of social or economic classes. |
| stymie |
throw an obstacle in the way of (something or someone); impede; thwart. |
| surmount |
to get over or past; overcome; conquer. |
| suture |
the act or process of surgically joining or sewing together the edges of a wound, incision, or the like. |
| unchallenged |
not or not having been questioned, disputed, or contested. |