| clammy |
unpleasantly moist, cool, and sticky. |
| confer |
to give or award. |
| construe |
to comprehend or explain the meaning or intention of; assign a meaning to; interpret. |
| dither |
to hesitate nervously or vacillate; be irresolute. |
| enforce |
to put in force; make people obey. |
| intermediate |
being or happening between two things, stages, positions, or persons; being in the middle. |
| marital |
of or concerning marriage. |
| meditation |
sustained thought or self-forgetful concentration, especially for the purposes of religious devotion or relaxation. |
| prohibition |
the act of forbidding. |
| spangle |
a small, thin piece of shiny metal used for decoration on clothing. |
| subsist |
to stay alive or obtain the necessities of life (usually followed by "on"). |
| synonym |
a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another word of the same language. |
| tyranny |
a government in which a single person rules absolutely and in a cruel way. |
| vengeance |
injury or damage done to a person in return for injury or damage inflicted by him or her; retribution. |
| voluntary |
acting from or done by choice. |