| atheist |
a person who believes that there is no god or gods. |
| compulsion |
coercion or constraint; act of using force to bring about another's action. |
| gratis |
without charging money; freely. |
| incriminate |
to show involvement in a crime. |
| ineffectual |
incapable of acting effectively. |
| inherent |
existing in or belonging to something as an essential or inborn part of its nature; innate; intrinsic. |
| notoriety |
the condition or quality of being widely known or spoken of, especially for something that is not good. |
| oscillate |
to swing steadily and repeatedly back and forth. |
| personify |
to be a perfect or typical example of; embody. |
| protégé |
a person under the care or sponsorship of an influential patron. |
| refract |
to bend (rays or waves of light, heat, sound, or the like) in passing (them) obliquely from one medium into another which transmits them at a different speed. |
| retrograde |
moving or tending to move in a backward direction; retreating. |
| rudiment |
(often plural) something in an initial, imperfect, or undeveloped form. |
| scandalous |
causing, or likely to cause, a scandal; shocking; disgraceful. |
| synthesis |
the combining of discrete elements into a unified compound or entity, or the unified whole formed by such a combining. |