| arbitration |
the consideration and decision of an issue or dispute by someone who has the official authority to decide such matters. |
| counterbalance |
to balance or offset with an equal force or influence; counterpoise. |
| exalt |
to honor or glorify. |
| grandiloquent |
speaking or expressed in a pretentious, pompous, or excessively ornate fashion. |
| impending |
about to occur or appear. |
| importune |
to pester with insistent demands or requests. |
| impoverish |
to make poor; cause to live in poverty. |
| incarnate |
having bodily form; personified. |
| pastoral |
of or relating to the country or country life; rural. |
| portal |
a doorway or entrance, especially a large and imposing one. |
| rectitude |
moral or ethical propriety; uprightness. |
| refractory |
obstinately disobedient; difficult to control, as a child or animal. |
| rivulet |
a tiny stream or brook; trickle. |
| squalid |
dirty or foul, as from neglect. |
| vacillate |
to hesitate or waver in giving an opinion or making a decision; be indecisive. |