| academician |
one who belongs to an organization or institution that promotes learning. |
| arduous |
entailing great difficulty, exertion, or endurance; laborious. |
| confluence |
a joining of two or more streams, or their point of junction. |
| consolidate |
to join together into a whole; combine. |
| curvature |
the condition of being bent or rounded. |
| forestall |
to prevent or hinder by taking action beforehand. |
| hallow |
to respect or honor highly; venerate. |
| indigent |
without financial means to live; needy; poor. |
| inimical |
having or tending to have a bad effect; harmful or adverse. |
| intrinsic |
being essential to or of the nature of a thing; inherent. |
| lithe |
characterized by light, graceful, flexible movements. |
| mendacity |
a tendency to lie; untruthfulness. |
| posterior |
located behind or toward the back of something. |
| prohibitive |
serving as a preventative. |
| turncoat |
one who changes from one party, allegiance, or the like, to the opposite, especially a traitor. |