| adulterate |
to make worse or impure by adding unnecessary or inferior ingredients. |
| corpulent |
fat; portly; obese. |
| demeanor |
the way in which one conducts oneself; deportment. |
| deride |
to ridicule or treat with scornful mockery. |
| exigent |
requiring immediate attention; urgent or critical. |
| hysteria |
in an individual or group, an uncontrollable outburst of fear or other emotions, producing fits of weeping, laughter, irrational behavior, or the like. |
| induce |
to persuade or influence, as to a course of action. |
| intrepid |
feeling or showing no fear; courageous; bold. |
| metabolism |
the processes in plants and animals by which food is changed into energy or used to make cells and tissues. |
| philanthropist |
one who engages in charitable activities. |
| plagiarize |
to wrongfully and deliberately claim as one's own (the ideas, words, or the like) of someone else. |
| primacy |
the state of being first, earliest, most essential, or most important. |
| provisional |
adopted on a temporary or tentative basis until something permanent is established; conditional. |
| tithe |
an amount of money, produce, or goods equal in value to a tenth of one's income, given or paid as a contribution or tax, especially to a church. |
| vicarious |
experienced through imagined participation in someone else's actions, sufferings, or the like. |