| alleviate |
to make (trouble or pain) easier to tolerate or accept; ease. |
| capitalist |
one who supports an economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately owned, and prices are chiefly determined by open competition in a free market. |
| devoid |
not having something; totally lacking. |
| enrapture |
to cause to be in rapture or to be ecstatically joyful. |
| exchangeable |
capable of being interchanged with or given in return for another. |
| fiasco |
an utter and shameful failure. |
| idealist |
a person with high or noble principles, goals, or codes of action. |
| incise |
to cut into the surface of. |
| intercede |
to act as a mediator in a dispute or disagreement. |
| leer |
to give a sideways or nasty look or smile suggestive of malicious or sexual thoughts. |
| misrepresent |
to identify or describe in a misleading way. |
| pellucid |
extremely clear in meaning. |
| pessimistic |
feeling in a negative way about things; expecting the worst to happen. |
| promontory |
a high cliff that sticks out into a large body of water or that rises above an area of lower land. |
| purge |
to free or rid (usually followed by "of" or "from"). |