| confidence |
a sense of trust or faith in a person or thing, or in oneself. |
| dainty |
small, pretty, and delicate. |
| disclosure |
the act or process of making known, uncovering, or exposing. |
| dominant |
most powerful; ruling or controlling. |
| drastic |
extreme or severe. |
| duct |
a pipe or tube that carries air or liquid. |
| empower |
to give legal rights or authority to. |
| exile |
the condition of being sent away from one's country and not allowed to return as a punishment. |
| gala |
a happy celebration, especially a large, elaborate one. |
| historian |
one who writes about or is an expert on history. |
| maelstrom |
a turbulent or overpowering situation. |
| pesky |
(informal) pestering or annoying. |
| portray |
to make a picture of in images or words. |
| respectively |
in the order that two or more people or things have been named. |
| vicinity |
an area near or around a place; somewhere nearby. |