| befall |
to happen to. |
| culminate |
to arrive at a climax or conclusion (usually followed by "in"). |
| entomology |
the science concerned with insects. |
| grassroots |
originating with or operating among the common people. |
| laxity |
the state or quality of being careless or slack; looseness. |
| memoir |
an account of facts or events based primarily on the author's personal experience. |
| receptive |
open and willing to accommodate new thoughts and ideas. |
| recompense |
payment or action to compensate for the expenditure or loss of time, money, property, or the like. |
| senile |
showing certain characteristics of old age, especially a deterioration of mental faculties or emotional control. |
| simpleminded |
not complex or sophisticated. |
| suture |
the act or process of surgically joining or sewing together the edges of a wound, incision, or the like. |
| tenet |
any belief, opinion, doctrine, or the like, that a person or especially an organization holds as being true. |
| theorem |
a proposition or idea that can be proven by other formulas or propositions in mathematics, or deduced from accepted premises or assumptions in logic. |
| urbane |
refined in manner; polished; elegant. |
| vehement |
intensely emotional; impassioned; heated. |