| amenable |
willing to respond, agree, or submit; agreeable; pliable. |
| arduous |
entailing great difficulty, exertion, or endurance; laborious. |
| autocracy |
rule by one person with absolute power; despotism. |
| contiguous |
in contact; touching; adjoining. |
| fragmentary |
consisting of fragments; incomplete or disconnected. |
| limbo1 |
(often capitalized) in theology, a place neither in heaven nor hell for souls neither saved nor condemned, such as those of unbaptized infants. |
| negligible |
so small or unimportant as to be of no account; trifling or insignificant. |
| nonconformity |
refusal or failure to adjust one's behavior and actions to accord or comply with societal customs, values, or the like. |
| pensive |
thoughtful in a sad or deeply serious way. |
| realist |
a person who tends to see or present things as they actually are. |
| sinewy |
of sinew, or sinewlike; strong; tough. |
| spate |
a sudden rush, outpouring, or flood. |
| syncopate |
in music, to make (a rhythm) more complex as by accenting beats that are not normally accented or employing rests where accented beats would be expected. |
| tenuous |
having little substance, support, or significance; flimsy; weak. |
| undermine |
to gradually, secretly, or imperceptibly weaken and destroy. |