| abstruse |
difficult to comprehend or understand; esoteric; arcane. |
| coeval |
coinciding in time of origin or existence; contemporary. |
| deter |
to stop or discourage from some action by creating doubt or fear. |
| distraught |
mentally or emotionally unbalanced; crazed. |
| eruct |
to belch forth. |
| etiolate |
to weaken, especially through deprivation of normal development. |
| expiation |
the act or the means of making amends, as for a sin or crime. |
| misfeasance |
a normally lawful act performed in an unlawful way. |
| obscurantism |
a deliberate lack of clarity or directness of expression, as in certain styles of art or literature. |
| parlous |
full of dangers or risks; perilous. |
| precursory |
coming before and serving to indicate what will follow; premonitory. |
| rapacious |
capable of capturing and eating live prey; predacious. |
| reprisal |
injury inflicted in retaliation for injury received, as in war; revenge. |
| symbiosis |
a close association, usually a mutually beneficial relationship, between two dissimilar organisms. |
| triage |
a system of determining priority of medical treatment, on the basis of need, chances of survival, and the like, to victims on a battlefield or in a hospital emergency ward. |