| amalgamation |
the act, process, or result of combining two or more, often disparate, things. |
| autocracy |
rule by one person with absolute power; despotism. |
| bane |
something or someone that causes ruin or great trouble. |
| digression |
the act or result of straying from the main topic. |
| enrapture |
to cause to be in rapture or to be ecstatically joyful. |
| intolerant |
not able or not willing to accept different opinions, beliefs, customs, or people; not tolerant. |
| monolithic |
large, unyielding, and without diversity. |
| parley |
a discussion, especially between opponents or enemies, as to establish terms of truce. |
| presentiment |
an intuition or sense of something about to happen; foreboding. |
| profane |
irreverent or irreligious; blasphemous. |
| recumbent |
lying down; reclining. |
| retinue |
a group of attendants or other employees who accompany a prominent person. |
| squabble |
to quarrel over trivial matters; bicker. |
| utopia |
(often capitalized) an imagined or proposed place or society that is ideal, especially in its laws, ethics, and treatment of humanity. |