| acclimate |
to become used to new weather conditions or surroundings. |
| archives |
the body of records or information pertaining to an institution, organization, or historical figure. |
| dissipate |
to cause to disappear by, or as though by, dispersing or dissolving. |
| implausible |
hard to believe or credit. |
| instrumental |
serving as an agent or partial cause. |
| licentious |
not within the bounds of morality or propriety, especially with regard to sexual conduct; immoral; lewd. |
| macabre |
of, pertaining to, depicting, or evoking death or the horrors of death; gruesome; ghastly. |
| misrepresent |
to identify or describe in a misleading way. |
| prelude |
an introductory event or act; preface; preliminary. |
| preoccupation |
the state of being completely engrossed or absorbed in thought. |
| reconstitute |
to put together or form again. |
| stringent |
rigorous or exacting; strict. |
| transitory |
lasting for only a short time; brief. |
| upshot |
the most important issue, result, or conclusion. |