| adulation |
extreme or excessive praise. |
| ameliorate |
to make better; improve. |
| degeneration |
the process of decline or decay. |
| dispassionate |
without strong feeling or bias; calm; impartial. |
| faction |
a group or party within, and often at odds with, a larger organization. |
| folio |
a large sheet of paper that has been folded once to form two leaves or four pages of a book or manuscript. |
| fractious |
inclined to be irritable and quarrelsome; cranky. |
| horticulture |
the art or science of growing vegetables, flowers, fruits, or ornamental plants. |
| ignominy |
the condition of being in disgrace or dishonor; humiliation. |
| mutation |
a sudden, apparently abnormal change or alteration in a genetically determined structure, as opposed to gradual evolutionary change. |
| phenomenal |
amazing or extraordinary. |
| prohibitive |
serving as a preventative. |
| schism |
a division into factions with opposing beliefs, especially in a Christian church. |
| spellbind |
to hold fascinated, as by magicl; enchant. |
| wean |
to cause to be free of a habit, activity, or the like, often by means of a distraction or substitute. |