| auditory |
having to do with or referring to hearing or the sense of hearing. |
| creditor |
someone to whom money is owed. |
| defeatist |
characterized by an acceptance or expectation of failure. |
| fiscal |
pertaining to public or governmental finances. |
| heresy |
a religious belief or doctrine not in keeping with the established doctrine of a church, especially the rejection of or dissent from any aspect of Roman Catholic Church dogma by a baptized church member. |
| insolvent |
incapable of paying debts or meeting liabilities; penniless; bankrupt. |
| interminable |
endless or seemingly endless; monotonously long. |
| invariable |
not subject to change; consistently the same. |
| inveterate |
persisting in a habit, action, feeling, or the like. |
| iterate |
to say or do again or repeatedly. |
| mutation |
a sudden, apparently abnormal change or alteration in a genetically determined structure, as opposed to gradual evolutionary change. |
| parameter |
any of a set of specifications or limits, the value or variations of which determine the form or behavior of something. |
| pariah |
a despised or socially outcast person. |
| rarefy |
to make less dense. |
| tenacious |
holding on or tending to hold on strongly or persistently (sometimes followed by "of"). |