| affluence |
material wealth. |
| candor |
the quality of openness, honesty, and straightforwardness in expression. |
| caustic |
bitingly critical. |
| compulsion |
coercion or constraint; act of using force to bring about another's action. |
| correlate |
to have a causal, complementary, parallel, or reciprocal relationship. |
| engross |
to take all the attention of; interest fully. |
| epithet |
a word or phrase attached to, or used in place of, a given name. |
| fallacious |
based on unsound logic; in error; illogical. |
| laggard |
someone or something that falls behind the pace of others. |
| manifest |
to show plainly; display; demonstrate. |
| prophetic |
foretelling or revealing the future. |
| refract |
to bend (rays or waves of light, heat, sound, or the like) in passing (them) obliquely from one medium into another which transmits them at a different speed. |
| unregulated |
not subject to rules or constraints. |
| venturesome |
tending to take risks; brave. |
| virile |
having the qualities of a man; characteristically masculine. |