| abbreviate |
to shorten the time or length of. |
| avail |
to be useful or profitable to; be of value to. |
| balm |
a soothing, healing ointment, often fragrant. |
| frank1 |
honest, direct, and open. |
| frigid |
very cold; freezing. |
| genealogy |
a chart or record showing the ancestors and lines of hereditary descent of a person or group; family tree. |
| inter |
to bury in a grave or tomb. |
| maximize |
to increase or enlarge as much as possible. |
| occasional |
happening now and then or not too often. |
| perspective |
the way things are seen from a particular point of view. |
| populate |
to live in; inhabit. |
| productivity |
the capacity for manufacturing things or doing any work that yields measurable results. |
| rendezvous |
a meeting that has been arranged ahead of time. |
| sovereign |
having independent government. |
| statistics |
(used with a singular verb) the mathematical study of numerical information, especially representative information about a limited portion of a population that is used to make generalized conclusions about the whole. |