| adulterate |
to make worse or impure by adding unnecessary or inferior ingredients. |
| alimony |
money that a court orders one member of a divorced couple to pay to the other. |
| climactic |
pertaining to, reaching, or being the point of highest interest or intensity in a series of increasingly important points or events. |
| cordon |
a chain of guards or military stations forming a defense or containment line around an area. |
| discrete |
separate and distinct. |
| heretofore |
prior to this time; before now. |
| impenetrable |
impossible to enter; impervious. |
| indigent |
without financial means to live; needy; poor. |
| irrefutable |
impossible to disprove; indisputable. |
| labyrinthine |
complex and intricate to the point of being puzzling. |
| posthumous |
beginning, occurring, or continuing after one's death. |
| proletariat |
the working class, especially those who lack capital and must sell their usually unskilled labor in order to survive. |
| succumb |
to give in or give way to a fatal illness, superior force, overwhelming desire, or the like; yield. |
| taint |
to slightly corrupt or pollute. |
| undermine |
to gradually, secretly, or imperceptibly weaken and destroy. |