| benefactor |
one who helps or brings good to an individual or an institution, usually by giving money. |
| crossbreed |
to cause (a hybrid organism) to be produced by mating two different varieties of the same species. |
| degeneration |
the process of decline or decay. |
| elegy |
a sorrowful or mournful poem or musical composition, especially a lament for the dead. |
| exuberant |
vigorously enthusiastic or happy; high-spirited. |
| fraught |
accompanied by; full of, usually something bad or unpleasant. |
| nuance |
a subtle quality or difference in tone, meaning, color, or the like; shade. |
| onerous |
unwanted, unpleasant, and burdensome. |
| pertain |
to relate to or have to do with something. |
| remit |
to refrain from carrying out; cancel. |
| reprieve |
to release (someone) temporarily or permanently from planned or impending punishment, pain, or difficulty. |
| synthesis |
the combining of discrete elements into a unified compound or entity, or the unified whole formed by such a combining. |
| tangential |
barely connected to or touching a subject. |
| therapeutic |
of, pertaining to, or capable of healing; curative. |
| travail |
strenuous and often painful or exhausting work; toil. |