| apportion |
to assign, adjust, or distribute parts so as to maintain the proper proportion; allot. |
| equity |
the quality of being fair and reasonable; fairness. |
| ethereal |
highly refined; unworldly. |
| grandiloquence |
speech that is pretentious, pompous, or excessively mannered. |
| imbue |
to inspire or permeate, as with an idea or emotion; deeply influence. |
| inopportune |
occurring at an undesirable or unreasonable time. |
| insular |
closed to new ideas; narrow-minded. |
| invective |
strongly abusive or denunciatory speech or language. |
| meritorious |
having worth or high quality; deserving of praise or reward. |
| mutable |
able or likely to change. |
| onerous |
unwanted, unpleasant, and burdensome. |
| sheathe |
to put in a tight, protective case. |
| stagnate |
to be or become motionless, fouled, or lacking in energy, originality, or development. |
| synthesis |
the combining of discrete elements into a unified compound or entity, or the unified whole formed by such a combining. |
| tome |
a large thick book, often one of a multivolume scholarly work. |