| alibi |
a way of defending oneself against criminal charges by showing that one was not at the scene of the crime when it happened. |
| cameo |
a stone carved so as to leave a slightly raised image of one color and a background of another, often worn as jewelry. |
| cylinder |
a solid figure with a shape similar to that of a can, a round flat cake, or a round tube with closed ends. A cylinder has parallel circular faces joined by one curved face. |
| decline |
to refuse to do, in a polite way. |
| dismal |
full of gloom; sad. |
| ecstasy |
a feeling of great pleasure or joy. |
| enact |
to make into a law. |
| inanimate |
not having or showing the characteristics associated with life; lifeless. |
| knoll |
a small rounded rise of land; hill. |
| mystify |
to confuse or puzzle, often on purpose. |
| prosecutor |
an attorney who tries a case against an accused person in a court of law. |
| statistics |
(used with a singular verb) the mathematical study of numerical information, especially representative information about a limited portion of a population that is used to make generalized conclusions about the whole. |
| subsist |
to stay alive or obtain the necessities of life (usually followed by "on"). |
| velocity |
speed. |
| witless |
lacking or not using cleverness or intelligence; stupid; foolish. |