| acrimony |
bitterness or sharpness in speech or behavior. |
| amass |
to gather or accumulate for oneself. |
| benefactor |
one who helps or brings good to an individual or an institution, usually by giving money. |
| coy |
artfully shy or retiring; playfully but calculatingly reticent. |
| delude |
to cause to hold a false belief; mislead; deceive. |
| frivolous |
unworthy of serious consideration or merit; trivial or silly. |
| hilarity |
noisy or boisterous merriment. |
| impoverish |
to make poor; cause to live in poverty. |
| inherent |
existing in or belonging to something as an essential or inborn part of its nature; innate; intrinsic. |
| intolerance |
inability or unwillingness to accept the existence or validity of opinions, beliefs, customs, and practices different from one's own. |
| misdeed |
an unacceptable, evil, or illegal act. |
| myopia |
a visual defect in which distant images are focused in front of rather than on the retina; nearsightedness. |
| orientation |
the act or process of preparing oneself or others for a new situation. |
| slacken |
to decrease activity, strength, speed, intensity, or the like. |
| usurp |
to take and hold (a right, position, office, or the like) illegally, wrongfully, or by force. |