| capricious |
tending to act on impulse; subject to whim; erratic and unpredictable. |
| chasten |
to awaken conscience or bring about moral improvement through suffering, discipline, or punishment. |
| consecrate |
to commit or devote to some goal or service. |
| edifice |
a building, especially a large or impressive structure. |
| empathy |
identification with or sharing of another's feelings, situation, or attitudes. |
| ensue |
to occur as the result of an earlier event. |
| fluency |
the ability to speak or write smoothly and easily in another language. |
| gibberish |
written or spoken words that are unintelligible, needlessly obscure, or without coherent meaning. |
| litany |
any recital that involves repetition or incantation, especially a long or monotonous account, as of one's troubles. |
| overture |
an opening move to begin something. |
| posthumous |
beginning, occurring, or continuing after one's death. |
| profiteer |
a person who gains excessive profits, especially by selling scarce commodities at very high prices. |
| scavenger |
an animal that finds and eats dead animals or rotting plants; a person who finds things that others no longer want. |
| travail |
strenuous and often painful or exhausting work; toil. |
| uncharted |
not recorded on any map; unexplored or unknown, as some geographical area or field of research. |