arbitrary |
resulting from personal opinions, wishes, or feelings instead of from a rule or reason. |
charter |
an official document given by a government or ruler to a business or other group. The charter explains the group's rights and responsibilities. |
economics |
the study of how goods and services are produced and distributed. |
excerpt |
a short section taken from a play, film, or written work. |
injunction |
a command or order, especially from a court, to do or refrain from doing something; authorization or prohibition. |
liquefy |
to reduce to or become a fluid. |
ongoing |
continuing from sometime in the past into the present. |
poise |
a state or position of balance. |
premature |
done, happening, or born before the expected time; too soon. |
recalibrate |
to reset or adjust the scale of (a quantitative measuring instrument or system), usually to maintain a correspondence with a standard. |
redirect |
to guide to a different destination or by a different route. |
sanitary |
free from things that can cause infection; clean; sterile. |
smug |
confident of or satisfied with oneself to the point of annoying other people; complacent. |
suitable |
right for the situation or purpose; fitting. |
zest |
a sense of great pleasure or enjoyment. |