conscript |
a military recruit summoned by draft; draftee. |
conspirator |
a person who is involved in a plot with others to perform or a criminal or wrongful act. |
delude |
to cause to hold a false belief; mislead; deceive. |
differentiate |
to distinguish between or among. |
disaffect |
to cause to lose affection for, loyalty to, or contentment in an idea, a person, or an organization such as a government; alienate. |
facilitate |
to make less difficult; help in the doing of. |
gesticulation |
the act or an instance of using hand movements, as to add emphasis or expressiveness to speech. |
interrelate |
to place in or come into a shared, mutual, or reciprocal relationship. |
lobbyist |
one who attempts, on behalf of a special interest group, to influence the way legislators vote. |
prohibitive |
serving as a preventative. |
puerile |
immature or silly; childish. |
resilience |
the ability to resume shape after being pressed or stretched. |
socialite |
one who is prominent in fashionable social circles. |
tangential |
barely connected to or touching a subject. |
throwback |
a reappearance of an outmoded procedure, system, or the like. |