| armistice |
an agreement by groups of people or countries at war to stop fighting; truce. |
| docile |
obedient and easy to manage. |
| dowdy1 |
not at all stylish; shabby or dull. |
| entrench |
to establish firmly and unchangeably. |
| evoke |
to call forth or bring out (an image, memory, response, or the like) in the mind or in action. |
| idolatry |
unquestioning or excessive devotion or adoration. |
| irony |
a manner of using language so that it conveys a different or opposite meaning to that which is literally expressed in the words themselves. Irony is used in ordinary conversation and also as a literary technique, especially to express criticism or to produce humor or pathos. |
| nascent |
coming into being or starting to develop. |
| opulent |
having or displaying wealth and luxury. |
| plagiarize |
to wrongfully and deliberately claim as one's own (the ideas, words, or the like) of someone else. |
| progenitor |
an ancestor or forebear. |
| proletarian |
of, pertaining or belong to, or characteristic of the working class, especially laborers who lack capital. |
| ramification |
a consequence or related aspect of something; offshoot. |
| sultry |
uncomfortably hot and humid. |
| uncouth |
lacking manners or refinement; rude, vulgar, or gauche. |