| callous |
not having kindness; not sensitive; having a hard heart. |
| contemptuous |
feeling or expressing angry disgust, as at something unworthy or wicked; scornful. |
| deducible |
able to be concluded or inferred from certain facts or principles. |
| emaciated |
extremely thin, as from starvation or disease. |
| heartrending |
causing or expressing deep sorrow or anguish. |
| imitative |
of, involving, or characterized by reproduction or copying; not original. |
| mainstay |
the main support of something. |
| Philistine |
(sometimes lower case) one who is ignorant of, smugly indifferent to, or hostile to aesthetic and cultural values. |
| provincial |
limited in outlook; narrow-minded. |
| rampant |
unrestrained or uncontrollable; unbridled. |
| recluse |
a person who lives in voluntary isolation from others. |
| refract |
to bend (rays or waves of light, heat, sound, or the like) in passing (them) obliquely from one medium into another which transmits them at a different speed. |
| rudiment |
(often plural) something in an initial, imperfect, or undeveloped form. |
| tentative |
not yet fully developed or definitely decided; provisional. |
| vertigo |
a sensation of unsteadiness or dizziness, such that one's surroundings seem to be whirling around. |