| accountability |
the state or quality of being responsible for providing an explanation or justification. |
| coherent |
lumping, holding, or sticking together. |
| distill |
to subject (a substance) to heat to the point of vaporization, and then to cooling to produce condensation. |
| disuse |
the state or condition of not being used or practiced any longer. |
| dub1 |
to name or call. |
| exhilaration |
intense high spirits. |
| fabricate |
to construct or create. |
| finite |
limited in number, quantity, or duration; capable of being measured. (Cf. infinite.) |
| lateral |
about, from, or toward a side or sides; sideways. |
| populace |
the people who live in a particular place. |
| portend |
to serve as a sign or warning of; bode. |
| 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. |
| sedative |
causing tranquillity or calmness. |
| stringent |
rigorous or exacting; strict. |
| sycophant |
one that flatters and fawns over superiors in order to get favors or advance his or her position; toady. |