| amorphous |
lacking definite form, shape, or character. |
| arbitration |
the consideration and decision of an issue or dispute by someone who has the official authority to decide such matters. |
| belated |
too late; tardy. |
| clime |
in literary use, a region of the earth, or the typical weather conditions thereof. |
| constrain |
to keep within tight restrictions; confine. |
| contiguous |
in contact; touching; adjoining. |
| credulity |
an inclination to believe or trust, especially without sufficient basis or evidence; gullibility. |
| importune |
to pester with insistent demands or requests. |
| infinitesimal |
of a thing or quantity, too small to be measured or calculated. |
| irony |
a manner of using language so that it conveys a different or opposite meaning to that which is literally expressed in the words themselves. Irony is used in ordinary conversation and also as a literary technique, especially to express criticism or to produce humor or pathos. |
| proponent |
one who proposes or favors an idea, doctrine, course of action, or the like. |
| repercussion |
(usually plural) a result or effect of an action or event, often occurring indirectly or unexpectedly. |
| roil |
to disturb or anger; agitate. |
| ruddy |
reddish; rosy. |
| scruple |
a belief about right and wrong that keeps a person from doing something that may be bad. |