ashen1 |
of the color of ashes; very pale. |
bane |
something or someone that causes ruin or great trouble. |
beguile |
to deceive or cheat by using guile. |
duplicity |
deceitful speech or action. |
hedonistic |
adhering to or characterized by the principle that pleasure should be the primary aim in life. |
influx |
the act or an instance of flowing in. |
irrevocable |
impossible to take back, undo, or cancel. |
ramification |
a consequence or related aspect of something; offshoot. |
scapegoat |
one made to bear the blame for the wrongs of others. |
shoddy |
of low quality; poorly made or carried out. |
socialite |
one who is prominent in fashionable social circles. |
solicitous |
anxiously or tenderly concerned or attentive (usually followed by about, of, or for.) |
sycophant |
one that flatters and fawns over superiors in order to get favors or advance his or her position; toady. |
synthesis |
the combining of discrete elements into a unified compound or entity, or the unified whole formed by such a combining. |
theorem |
a proposition or idea that can be proven by other formulas or propositions in mathematics, or deduced from accepted premises or assumptions in logic. |