| confection |
a sweetened candy or fruit. |
| crux |
an essential, basic, crucial, or pivotal point. |
| dehumanize |
to deprive of individuality, spirit, or other human qualities; render routine or mechanical. |
| exemplar |
one worthy to be imitated or studied; model. |
| gingerly |
in a careful or cautious manner; warily. |
| incur |
to become liable for or bring upon oneself (usually some unwanted or harmful consequence). |
| juncture |
a particular point in time, especially a point of serious importance or crisis. |
| metabolism |
the processes in plants and animals by which food is changed into energy or used to make cells and tissues. |
| provisional |
adopted on a temporary or tentative basis until something permanent is established; conditional. |
| pugnacious |
ready or eager to fight; overly aggressive or quarrelsome. |
| reconcile |
to heal differences and restore a good relationship between. |
| remit |
to refrain from carrying out; cancel. |
| sully |
to make dirty or tarnished. |
| syncopate |
in music, to make (a rhythm) more complex as by accenting beats that are not normally accented or employing rests where accented beats would be expected. |
| veracity |
conformance to fact; accuracy; truth. |