| adversity |
a condition of trouble or difficulty. |
| alacrity |
willing promptness. |
| anarchist |
a person who believes in, desires, or tries to realize a society or state without a government. |
| concord |
a state of agreement or harmony between persons or things. |
| decelerate |
to lower the speed of; decrease in velocity; slow down. |
| fanfare |
a flourish of trumpets, used to mark an entrance or beginning. |
| fecund |
capable of producing abundant fruit or offspring; fruitful; fertile. |
| lenient |
not strict with rules; tolerant. |
| mimicry |
an act, instance, or the art of imitating or copying the speech, behavior, or expressions of others. |
| multifarious |
of or having a great variety of parts, forms, or kinds; many and varied. |
| psychosis |
serious mental disorder that affects all aspects of the personality and involves withdrawal from reality. |
| renunciation |
the act or an instance of giving up or rejecting something, usually as a sacrifice; renouncing. |
| retinue |
a group of attendants or other employees who accompany a prominent person. |
| splice |
to join (two pieces of film, tape, or similar things) at the ends. |
| wan |
very pale. |