| anathema |
something or someone despised or cursed. |
| deleterious |
harmful or injurious, as to health. |
| edifice |
a building, especially a large or impressive structure. |
| fervent |
having or expressing warmth, depth, or intensity of feeling. |
| fitful |
occurring at irregular intervals. |
| gratis |
without charging money; freely. |
| incongruous |
not suitable or fitting; out of place. |
| juncture |
a particular point in time, especially a point of serious importance or crisis. |
| languish |
to lose strength or energy; weaken. |
| recompense |
payment or action to compensate for the expenditure or loss of time, money, property, or the like. |
| 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. |
| renounce |
to give up (a right or claim) usually by formal declaration or announcement; waive. |
| rigorous |
showing strictness or sternness. |
| unseemly |
not in accord with accepted social standards; improper; indecorous. |
| vertigo |
a sensation of unsteadiness or dizziness, such that one's surroundings seem to be whirling around. |