| amenable |
willing to respond, agree, or submit; agreeable; pliable. |
| appease |
to cause to become calmer by meeting demands. |
| arable |
capable of being farmed. |
| auspice |
(usually plural) sponsorship or protection; patronage. |
| defeatist |
characterized by an acceptance or expectation of failure. |
| feral |
existing in a wild natural state; not domesticated. |
| ingest |
to take in to the body through the mouth. |
| mystical |
spiritually powerful, significant, or symbolic. |
| panache |
a confidently stylish, dashing, or flamboyant manner. |
| ponderous |
heavily labored and dull. |
| preponderance |
superiority in amount, strength, significance, weight, or the like. |
| profiteer |
a person who gains excessive profits, especially by selling scarce commodities at very high prices. |
| prurient |
characterized by or causing lewdness or lust. |
| refraction |
the bending of rays or waves of light, heat, sound, or the like when passed obliquely from one medium to another with a different rate of transmission. |
| rivulet |
a tiny stream or brook; trickle. |