| audacity |
courage or boldness often combined with daring or recklessness. |
| bane |
something or someone that causes ruin or great trouble. |
| centennial |
having to do with a one hundredth anniversary. |
| cosmopolitan |
of, drawn from, or common to all the world or all the peoples of the world. |
| disperse |
to drive away in all directions; scatter. |
| incipient |
starting to exist or become apparent; in an early stage of development. |
| lineage1 |
descent from or the descendants of a common or particular ancestor or ancestry. |
| malady |
an illness of the body or mind. |
| obscene |
offensive and not decent. |
| reaffirm |
to verify by asserting again. |
| 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. |
| strident |
harsh-sounding or loud; raucous; grating. |
| surveillance |
a close watch or observation, especially of a person or group of people under suspicion. |
| unguided |
without someone to lead or escort. |
| vicarious |
experienced through imagined participation in someone else's actions, sufferings, or the like. |