| academician |
one who belongs to an organization or institution that promotes learning. |
| bonanza |
anything that brings great wealth and prosperity. |
| compulsion |
coercion or constraint; act of using force to bring about another's action. |
| discontinuous |
interrupted or intermittent; not without pause or break. |
| inclement |
of weather, violent or disagreeable. |
| ingrate |
an ungrateful person. |
| insubstantial |
lacking firmness or solidity; slight. |
| openhanded |
tending to give to others; generous. |
| pellucid |
extremely clear in meaning. |
| pestilence |
an epidemic, usually deadly, disease; plague. |
| redress |
compensation or reparation; amends. |
| simile |
a figure of speech in which two different things are compared by using the words "like" or "as." "March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb" is an example of a simile. |
| synoptic |
forming a summary or overview. |
| timely |
happening at just the right moment. |
| typify |
to be the representative example of. |