| academician |
one who belongs to an organization or institution that promotes learning. |
| alienate |
to cause to become unfriendly or averse; estrange. |
| annexation |
the act of taking and adding (territory) to one's own territory. |
| arraign |
to bring before a court of law to respond to a charge or indictment. |
| clime |
in literary use, a region of the earth, or the typical weather conditions thereof. |
| conniption |
(informal) an outburst or fit of anger, hysteria, or the like. |
| correlate |
to have a causal, complementary, parallel, or reciprocal relationship. |
| firmament |
the entire arch of the sky; heavens. |
| incendiary |
causing or having the potential to cause a fire. |
| incision |
a cut made during surgery. |
| obliterate |
to erase or make unrecognizable by erasing. |
| Philistine |
(sometimes lower case) one who is ignorant of, smugly indifferent to, or hostile to aesthetic and cultural values. |
| retribution |
repayment for one's actions, especially punishment for evil. |
| rostrum |
a raised platform or dais for public speaking. |
| subpoena |
in law, a formal written order summoning a witness to give testimony or requiring that specified evidence be submitted. |