| broach |
to suggest or mention for the first time; bring up. |
| entourage |
a group of people who accompany another person as attendants or associates; retinue. |
| morbid |
in an unhealthy, gloomy mental state; preoccupied with sickness, abnormality, or death. |
| nominal |
in name alone. |
| perceptual |
of, relating to, or involving perception. |
| potentate |
a person of great power, such as a ruler. |
| pretext |
a false reason or claim put forward to mask one's true motive or aim. |
| primacy |
the state of being first, earliest, most essential, or most important. |
| psychosis |
serious mental disorder that affects all aspects of the personality and involves withdrawal from reality. |
| receptive |
open and willing to accommodate new thoughts and ideas. |
| refract |
to bend (rays or waves of light, heat, sound, or the like) in passing (them) obliquely from one medium into another which transmits them at a different speed. |
| scavenger |
an animal that finds and eats dead animals or rotting plants; a person who finds things that others no longer want. |
| spontaneous |
happening in a free way; not forced. |
| turncoat |
one who changes from one party, allegiance, or the like, to the opposite, especially a traitor. |
| unspoken |
assumed without being expressed or spoken; implied. |