| clammy |
unpleasantly moist, cool, and sticky. |
| contribution |
something that is contributed. |
| drastic |
extreme or severe. |
| emblem |
an object that stands for something; symbol. |
| indirect |
not in a straight line, course, or route. |
| lapse |
a slight failure to meet some accepted standard. |
| mastery |
the full grasp of a subject or skill. |
| oversee |
to watch over and direct (others or their work); supervise. |
| philosophical |
of or pertaining to the nature and principles of knowledge, truth, existence, and moral and aesthetic values. |
| recruit |
a soldier who has just joined or been drafted into the armed forces. |
| resistance |
the act or process of fighting against or opposing something. |
| shrewd |
clever and careful. |
| sophistication |
the quality or condition of having worldly knowledge, elegant refinement, or technological complexity. |
| specific |
pertaining to a particular thing or person and to nothing else of the same kind; particular. |
| stability |
the condition or quality of being steady, fixed, or unchanging. |