| adherent |
one who supports or follows a person, party, principle, or the like (usually followed by "of"). |
| delude |
to cause to hold a false belief; mislead; deceive. |
| disputation |
the act or process of arguing or debating a topic. |
| economize |
to spend less money; lower expenses; be economical. |
| entail |
to call for or bring about as a necessary accompaniment; necessarily involve. |
| fraught |
accompanied by; full of, usually something bad or unpleasant. |
| frolicsome |
full of high spirits, gaiety, or merriment; playful. |
| pastoral |
of or relating to the country or country life; rural. |
| patronage |
the financial or other support given to a business establishment by its customers or clients. |
| philosophy |
the study of the nature of life, truth, knowledge, and other important human matters, |
| refract |
to bend (rays or waves of light, heat, sound, or the like) in passing (them) obliquely from one medium into another which transmits them at a different speed. |
| shoddy |
of low quality; poorly made or carried out. |
| stalemate |
any situation in which a further action, offer, or the like is impossible or unlikely; deadlock. |
| tangential |
barely connected to or touching a subject. |
| uncharted |
not recorded on any map; unexplored or unknown, as some geographical area or field of research. |