| agile |
moving quickly and gracefully. |
| concordance |
an alphabetical index of all the main words in a book or in the entire work of an author, listing the contexts in which each word occurs and giving page references for each occurrence. |
| coordination |
the working together of different muscles to carry out a complicated movement. |
| demographic |
of or relating to the study of human populations, involving statistical analysis of size, distribution, density, migration, fertility, and the like. |
| desolate |
without the things that are necessary or desirable for life. |
| encounter |
a brief, chance meeting. |
| foolproof |
always successful or effective. |
| furlough |
a vacation for a person in the military. |
| insurgent |
one who uses armed force to rebel against one's own government. |
| lapse |
a slight failure to meet some accepted standard. |
| locale |
a place, especially as the setting of some event. |
| logic |
the process of drawing conclusions based on known principles or facts; reasoning. |
| participate |
to take part; share (usually followed by "in"). |
| sympathetic |
feeling or showing understanding. |
| unprecedented |
never before observed or experienced. |