| adversity |
a condition of trouble or difficulty. |
| complaisance |
willingness to please. |
| dispensary |
a room in an institution, such as a hospital, in which medical supplies are kept and given out. |
| impart |
to give all or a part of; bestow or transmit. |
| infamous |
having, deserving, or causing a bad reputation; notorious or shameful. |
| ingrate |
an ungrateful person. |
| interloper |
a person who intrudes in the affairs of others; meddler. |
| irony |
a manner of using language so that it conveys a different or opposite meaning to that which is literally expressed in the words themselves. Irony is used in ordinary conversation and also as a literary technique, especially to express criticism or to produce humor or pathos. |
| lewd |
characterized by vulgarity or offensively explicit sexual references; bawdy. |
| ramshackle |
poorly constructed or in disrepair; rickety. |
| recommence |
to begin or start again. |
| recumbent |
lying down; reclining. |
| regress |
to go back or backwards, as in reverting to an earlier form or stage of development. |
| retroactive |
going into operation or effect as of a previous date, or in respect to past events or circumstances. |
| untainted |
not contaminated or polluted. |