| discretion |
the freedom or authority to use one's own judgment. |
| electrify |
to shock, startle, or excite. |
| equinox |
either of the two times during the year when the sun's rays are perpendicular to the earth's equator, occurring in March and September. During the equinox, day and night are both 12 hours long all over the world. |
| fabricate |
to construct or create. |
| fervid |
heated or impassioned; intensely enthusiastic. |
| impasse |
a situation that allows no escape or solution; stalemate. |
| inordinate |
beyond the bounds of reason; excessive. |
| interrelate |
to place in or come into a shared, mutual, or reciprocal relationship. |
| intolerable |
too difficult or unpleasant to be near or to bear. |
| lummox |
(informal) someone who is especially clumsy, slow, and unintelligent. |
| obligatory |
required; compulsory. |
| ornamentation |
decoration; embellishment. |
| pillage |
to openly and forcefully seize goods from, as during a war; plunder. |
| presumptive |
affording a reasonable basis for belief. |
| regress |
to go back or backwards, as in reverting to an earlier form or stage of development. |