| adept |
having great skill or ability. |
| affront |
something that is said or done on purpose to be rude or mean. |
| allegory |
in art or literature, the use of concrete characters, events, or things, to represent abstract qualities or ideas, often to make a point about good and evil. |
| capitalist |
one who supports an economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately owned, and prices are chiefly determined by open competition in a free market. |
| horticulture |
the art or science of growing vegetables, flowers, fruits, or ornamental plants. |
| incarnate |
having bodily form; personified. |
| incense2 |
to make very angry. |
| marquee |
a canopy or a covering like a roof over the entrance to a building. The marquee over a theater shows the title of the current play or film and sometimes the names of the actors. |
| neurotic |
suffering from needless fears and worries. |
| onus |
an unwanted but necessary task; burden. |
| palpable |
easy to sense or perceive; obvious. |
| pertinacious |
tenacious in purpose, opinion, or the like; persevering. |
| retaliate |
to strike back; take revenge. |
| sublime |
exalted or noble; lofty. |
| uncharted |
not recorded on any map; unexplored or unknown, as some geographical area or field of research. |