acolyte |
a person who assists a clergyman in religious services, especially Roman Catholic. |
amenable |
willing to respond, agree, or submit; agreeable; pliable. |
cupidity |
exceptional desire for money or other material possessions; greed. |
expatriate |
one who has gone into exile from or renounced allegiance to his or her native land. |
inopportune |
occurring at an undesirable or unreasonable time. |
jargon |
special words or language used by a particular group or to describe a particular interest. |
legacy |
money, property, or other goods left to someone in a will. |
nebulous |
hazy, confused, or indistinct. |
obliterate |
to erase or make unrecognizable by erasing. |
primacy |
the state of being first, earliest, most essential, or most important. |
profuse |
great in amount or number. |
proletarian |
of, pertaining or belong to, or characteristic of the working class, especially laborers who lack capital. |
scuttle2 |
to move or run as if in a hurry; scurry. |
tolerable |
capable of being put up with or endured. |
wrest |
to take away with, or as if with, a twist or pull. |