| concoct |
to make by putting together a number of parts or ingredients. |
| conspirator |
a person who is involved in a plot with others to perform or a criminal or wrongful act. |
| doctrinaire |
dogmatically adhering to a theory or a school of thought, regardless of its practicality. |
| idealist |
a person with high or noble principles, goals, or codes of action. |
| itinerary |
a detailed plan of travel. |
| languor |
lack of strength or energy; weakness or listlessness. |
| nadir |
the lowest or most depressing point or stage. |
| prescriptive |
that prescribes; setting down rules. |
| realist |
a person who tends to see or present things as they actually are. |
| risqué |
very close to indecency or indelicacy; sexually suggestive; racy. |
| sobriety |
abstinence from alcohol; temperance. |
| stigmatize |
to label or brand as disgraceful or shameful. |
| stratify |
to assign categories or create divisions within (a society) according to a hierarchy of social or economic classes. |
| temperament |
the manner of thinking, feeling, and acting that is characteristic of a particular person or animal. |
| theocracy |
a form of government in which a god or gods are acknowledged as the ultimate authority. |