| allude |
to mention (usually followed by "to"). |
| dexterity |
grace and easy quickness in using the hands or body; skill. |
| exalt |
to honor or glorify. |
| galvanize |
to stimulate into awareness or activity. |
| indigenous |
being the people or animals that originally lived and may continue to live in a particular country or region. |
| leer |
to give a sideways or nasty look or smile suggestive of malicious or sexual thoughts. |
| paucity |
smallness of number or amount; scarcity. |
| perseverance |
steadfast continuance in a course of action, task, or belief. |
| pestilence |
an epidemic, usually deadly, disease; plague. |
| profundity |
that which involves great insight or intellectual depth. |
| regression |
the act or condition of return to an earlier form or less advanced state; biological or psychological reversion. |
| tantamount |
equal to or the same as; equivalent. |
| ungovernable |
unable to be governed, ordered, or controlled; uncontrollable. |
| vouch |
to promise to be true, real, or correct (usually followed by "for"). |
| wan |
very pale. |