| benefactor |
one who helps or brings good to an individual or an institution, usually by giving money. |
| combatant |
someone or something that engages in fighting, especially as part of warfare. |
| credo |
any formulation of belief, especially a religious one. |
| epigram |
a short, pithy, often paradoxical sentence. |
| euphemism |
the word or expression so substituted. |
| farce |
anything improbable, absurd, or empty of meaning; mockery; sham. |
| hydraulic |
of, concerning, operated by, or moved by water or another liquid under pressure. |
| incarnate |
having bodily form; personified. |
| mores |
the behaviors and manners accepted and expected in a social group, embodying its fundamental moral standards. |
| opulent |
having or displaying wealth and luxury. |
| presentiment |
an intuition or sense of something about to happen; foreboding. |
| profundity |
that which involves great insight or intellectual depth. |
| referent |
anything in the real world or in the imagination that is symbolized or referred to by a word or other symbol. |
| reformatory |
a corrective institution for disciplining and re-educating young offenders. |
| satire |
a literary or dramatic work that ridicules or derides human vice or foolishness, usually through the use of parody or irony. |