| affiliate |
to join as a member or smaller branch of (usually followed by "with"). |
| alimony |
money that a court orders one member of a divorced couple to pay to the other. |
| commentary |
a series of explanatory or interpretive remarks or comments. |
| crossbreed |
to cause (a hybrid organism) to be produced by mating two different varieties of the same species. |
| discrete |
separate and distinct. |
| distend |
to swell or cause to swell from, or as if from, internal pressure; balloon. |
| fraudulent |
characterized by or based on the use of deceit or trickery. |
| imprecise |
not exact, accurate, or well-defined; vague. |
| laudable |
worthy of praise. |
| macabre |
of, pertaining to, depicting, or evoking death or the horrors of death; gruesome; ghastly. |
| melodrama |
behavior or events, in reality or fiction, with similarly exaggerated features or effects. |
| neurotic |
suffering from needless fears and worries. |
| ostracism |
an exclusion or rejection, as from a social group. |
| prescience |
knowledge of future occurrences; foreknowledge. |
| tantamount |
equal to or the same as; equivalent. |