| apprehensive |
feeling fearful about future events. |
| benign |
causing little or no harm. |
| concur |
to share the same opinion; agree. |
| corporeal |
having to do with a physical body; bodily. |
| demotic |
of or relating to the common people; popular. |
| despoil |
to forcefully take belongings or goods from; plunder. |
| extirpate |
to get rid of completely, as if by pulling up the roots; root out. |
| humanism |
a doctrine or mode of thought that gives highest importance to human dignity, values, potentials, and achievements. |
| linguistics |
(used with a singular verb) the scientific and historical study of the form and structure of human language. |
| mirabile dictu |
(Latin) wonderful to say or relate. |
| modus operandi |
a method of accomplishing something; way of working. |
| opiate |
something that induces relaxation, calm, or stupor. |
| purvey |
to supply or provide (especially food, drink, or other provisions). |
| stanch1 |
to cause (a liquid, especially blood) to stop flowing. |
| unscathed |
not hurt or harmed; completely uninjured. |