| chasten |
to awaken conscience or bring about moral improvement through suffering, discipline, or punishment. |
| colloquial |
characteristic of or suited to informal or familiar conversation or to writing that is imitative of conversational tone. |
| conscript |
a military recruit summoned by draft; draftee. |
| cuisine |
a particular type of cooking, especially that of a particular region, or the food in general that is prepared in this way. |
| degenerate |
to decline from an original or former condition; change for the worse in nature or quality; deteriorate. |
| immobility |
the state or condition of not moving or being motionless. |
| infamy |
evil or shameful reputation. |
| luxuriant |
growing thickly and in great numbers; lush. |
| materialize |
to become fact; be realized. |
| matriculate |
to enroll or be enrolled in an organization, especially a college or university. |
| momentous |
very important. |
| pundit |
an authoritative, or purportedly authoritative, commentator or critic. |
| rehabilitate |
to restore to good health or to an otherwise improved state of being. |
| resurrection |
a return to life after death. |
| syncopate |
in music, to make (a rhythm) more complex as by accenting beats that are not normally accented or employing rests where accented beats would be expected. |