| candor |
the quality of openness, honesty, and straightforwardness in expression. |
| circumscribe |
to keep within bounds; confine; restrict. |
| deprave |
to change for the worse, especially morally; corrupt; pervert. |
| disparity |
the condition or an instance of being unlike, unequal, or of different kinds; difference. |
| distillation |
the process of heating a substance to produce a vapor, which is then cooled and condensed, in order to purify, concentrate, or extract components from the substance. |
| dysfunctional |
of a relationship, family, or social group, not working normally or in a way beneficial to all. |
| empirical |
based on or verifiable by experience or experiment, rather than on or by theory. |
| finite |
limited in number, quantity, or duration; capable of being measured. (Cf. infinite.) |
| fodder |
feed for farm animals, such as stalks of corn cut and mixed with hay. |
| informant |
one who reports or confides what he or she knows to another; source. |
| odious |
provoking or deserving of hatred; loathsome or repellent. |
| recurrent |
happening again or repeatedly. |
| reorganize |
to reestablish or arrange anew. |
| scavenger |
an animal that finds and eats dead animals or rotting plants; a person who finds things that others no longer want. |
| simplistic |
excessively simplified, as to be unrealistic. |