| abuse |
cruel or harmful treatment. |
| chronic |
tending to a certain behavior or illness over a long time or without stopping. |
| disadvantage |
a condition or situation that makes it more difficult to succeed. |
| exclude |
to leave out; keep out. |
| furlough |
a vacation for a person in the military. |
| inflict |
to deal out or strike in a physical attack. |
| injunction |
a command or order, especially from a court, to do or refrain from doing something; authorization or prohibition. |
| merge |
to mix or combine into a single unit. |
| momentary |
lasting only an instant. |
| obsess |
to preoccupy the mind or emotions of (someone) excessively or abnormally. |
| propose |
to present or suggest as an idea to be considered. |
| purify |
to make clean or pure. |
| recalibrate |
to reset or adjust the scale of (a quantitative measuring instrument or system), usually to maintain a correspondence with a standard. |
| spiritual |
of or pertaining to the soul or matters of the soul, the part of a human being that is believed to be the higher or deeper self and not part of the body. |
| summon |
to call to appear for a particular purpose. |