| ascendant |
moving upward; rising. |
| bonanza |
anything that brings great wealth and prosperity. |
| charlatan |
one who deceitfully claims to possess a particular skill or expertise; fraud; quack. |
| commodity |
something that can be bought and sold. |
| communal |
of or belong to members of a group; public; collective. |
| disinterest |
lack of bias or self-interest; impartiality. |
| ethereal |
highly refined; unworldly. |
| evanescent |
tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing; fleeting. |
| motif |
a distinct formal unit such as a design, theme, or musical phrase that may repeat in, dominate, characterize, or be a prominent feature of an aesthetic or decorative work. |
| realist |
a person who tends to see or present things as they actually are. |
| rebuff |
to reject, repel, block, or set back. |
| rift |
a break in social relations, because of a difference of opinion, quarrel, or the like; breach. |
| subside |
to become less; decrease. |
| torpid |
dormant or inactive, as in hibernation. |
| undaunted |
not discouraged; not giving up even though something is difficult or frightening. |