| climatic |
of or pertaining to the weather conditions most prevailing in a place. |
| exodus |
the leaving of large numbers of people. |
| hedonist |
one who believes that pleasure-seeking should be the primary goal of humans. |
| hiatus |
a gap or break in activity, time, or space; interruption. |
| inexplicable |
unable to be explained or interpreted. |
| militant |
aggressive or combative in attitude or actions, especially in defense of a cause. |
| paraphrase |
a restatement of a passage or text in somewhat different words so as to simplify, clarify, or amplify. |
| personify |
to be a perfect or typical example of; embody. |
| populist |
a person, especially a political leader, who represents, or claims to represent, the interests and concerns of the common people rather than the privileged, the politically powerful, or the intelligentsia. |
| prologue |
an introduction to a spoken or written work such as a speech or play; preface. |
| reaffirm |
to verify by asserting again. |
| squalid |
dirty or foul, as from neglect. |
| tensile |
of or relating to tension. |
| universality |
the quality, character, or condition of being universal. |
| unvaried |
marked by a lack of diversity; never changing. |