| affluent |
having a lot of money; rich; wealthy. |
| alleviate |
to make (trouble or pain) easier to tolerate or accept; ease. |
| betroth |
to pledge or give in marriage. |
| brevity |
shortness of duration. |
| charlatan |
one who deceitfully claims to possess a particular skill or expertise; fraud; quack. |
| comely |
pleasing in appearance. |
| emancipate |
to free from slavery or other control. |
| foreseeable |
capable of being anticipated or predicted. |
| mote |
a fine particle of dust; speck. |
| pique |
to cause (a feeling or action) to be aroused or incited. |
| precipice |
a steep cliff. |
| promulgate |
to explain or give instruction in (a doctrine) in public; advocate. |
| regression |
the act or condition of return to an earlier form or less advanced state; biological or psychological reversion. |
| scandalous |
causing, or likely to cause, a scandal; shocking; disgraceful. |
| stratum |
a level in a social hierarchy. |