| disembark |
to put or go ashore from a ship. |
| distill |
to subject (a substance) to heat to the point of vaporization, and then to cooling to produce condensation. |
| divest |
to take rights or property away from; dispossess, especially by legal means. |
| dossier |
a set of papers or documents that provide detailed information on a particular person or subject. |
| gender |
the sex of a person or animal. |
| grievous |
causing emotional or physical suffering; painful. |
| laudable |
worthy of praise. |
| natal |
of or concerning one's birth. |
| 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. |
| rehabilitate |
to restore to good health or to an otherwise improved state of being. |
| rue1 |
to regret, repent of, or feel sorry about. |
| sear1 |
to burn or scorch the outside of. |
| spendthrift |
one who is extravagant or wasteful with money; squanderer. |
| tenacity |
the quality or condition of holding on strongly or persistently to something. |
| unrelenting |
continuing with the same intensity, force, speed, or the like; not decreasing or weakening. |