| apportion |
to assign, adjust, or distribute parts so as to maintain the proper proportion; allot. |
| circumscribe |
to keep within bounds; confine; restrict. |
| decadence |
a decline into immorality; loss of moral values. |
| degeneration |
the process of decline or decay. |
| equable |
not varying extremely or suddenly; uniform; stable. |
| erudition |
a high level of scholarly knowledge; learnedness. |
| exhilaration |
intense high spirits. |
| fervent |
having or expressing warmth, depth, or intensity of feeling. |
| implacable |
not to be pacified or diverted; unappeasable or inexorable. |
| implode |
to violently collapse or compress inward. |
| noxious |
harmful, dangerous, or destructive, especially to health. |
| redundant |
unnecessarily repetitive. |
| reprove |
to criticize, usually mildly, for wrongdoing. |
| resurgent |
surging or rising once again; coming back. |
| revert |
to return to a previous state, practice, belief, or the like. |