| affiliate |
to join as a member or smaller branch of (usually followed by "with"). |
| denote |
to be a mark or sign of. |
| egress |
an act, instance, method, or place of exit or emergence. |
| imponderable |
unable to be evaluated or calculated accurately. |
| incense2 |
to make very angry. |
| inquisition |
an official inquiry, especially for the purpose of enforcing political, social, or religious conformity. |
| lobbyist |
one who attempts, on behalf of a special interest group, to influence the way legislators vote. |
| mentor |
someone who plays an important role in another person's life as a guide and teacher. |
| odious |
provoking or deserving of hatred; loathsome or repellent. |
| propagate |
to reproduce (offspring) or cause to reproduce. |
| prototype |
an original model on which later stages or forms are based or developed. |
| recompense |
payment or action to compensate for the expenditure or loss of time, money, property, or the like. |
| somnolent |
sleepy or drowsy. |
| stanza |
a group of related lines in a poem that make up one section within the poem. Stanzas often have a regular meter and rhyme pattern. |
| unsubstantiated |
lacking the evidence or verification needed to establish as true. |