| alimony |
money that a court orders one member of a divorced couple to pay to the other. |
| antecedent |
an event, circumstance, or thing coming before another. |
| carnage |
the mass killing of people; slaughter. |
| chasten |
to awaken conscience or bring about moral improvement through suffering, discipline, or punishment. |
| disparate |
essentially different and distinct. |
| disproportionate |
having too much of one thing in relation to something else; unbalanced. |
| fervent |
having or expressing warmth, depth, or intensity of feeling. |
| gender |
the sex of a person or animal. |
| hedonist |
one who believes that pleasure-seeking should be the primary goal of humans. |
| ideology |
the body of beliefs, symbols, and political and social aims that characterizes a particular group or institution. |
| imitative |
of, involving, or characterized by reproduction or copying; not original. |
| infernal |
of or pertaining to hell or the world of the dead. |
| 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. |
| motley |
made up of a contrasting variety of types, appearances, or the like; very heterogeneous. |
| realign |
to come to a new relationship or set of alliances, as countries or political factions. |