| apocalypse |
any instance of terrible destruction and devastation, especially on a scale that could bring about an end to the world. |
| censorious |
highly critical or disapproving. |
| deducible |
able to be concluded or inferred from certain facts or principles. |
| differentiate |
to distinguish between or among. |
| disconsolate |
hopelessly unhappy; dejected. |
| dispassionate |
without strong feeling or bias; calm; impartial. |
| enclave |
a small territory or country mostly or completely surrounded by another. |
| epigram |
a short, pithy, often paradoxical sentence. |
| frugal |
small in amount or cost; meager. |
| outstrip |
to exceed or surpass. |
| overweening |
particularly forward, vain, and self-promoting. |
| readjust |
to adapt oneself anew. |
| replete |
well-supplied; full (usually followed by "with"). |
| ricochet |
to bounce or skip off a surface at an angle; rebound. |
| substantive |
of or pertaining to the fundamental nature or concerns of something; essential. |