| amenable |
willing to respond, agree, or submit; agreeable; pliable. |
| backfire |
to have results that are the opposite of what one wanted. |
| decadent |
tending to indulge in sensual pleasures; hedonistic. |
| hypocrite |
a person who pretends to be different or better than he or she really is. Someone who does not act according to his or her stated beliefs is a hypocrite. |
| intolerance |
inability or unwillingness to accept the existence or validity of opinions, beliefs, customs, and practices different from one's own. |
| macabre |
of, pertaining to, depicting, or evoking death or the horrors of death; gruesome; ghastly. |
| nominal |
in name alone. |
| orientation |
the act or process of preparing oneself or others for a new situation. |
| paraphrase |
a restatement of a passage or text in somewhat different words so as to simplify, clarify, or amplify. |
| pittance |
a contemptibly small portion, amount, or payment. |
| problematic |
presenting difficulties or causing doubt; questionable. |
| recurrence |
an act or instance of happening or appearing again or repeatedly. |
| rite |
a formal ceremonial procedure prescribed or customary for a specific occasion, as in religious worship. |
| synthesis |
the combining of discrete elements into a unified compound or entity, or the unified whole formed by such a combining. |
| venial |
able to be excused, pardoned, or forgiven, as a minor error, offense, or sin. (Cf. mortal.) |