| academician |
one who belongs to an organization or institution that promotes learning. |
| backwater |
any place that is seen as primitive, unchanging, or stagnant. |
| complaisance |
willingness to please. |
| exigent |
requiring immediate attention; urgent or critical. |
| garner |
to accumulate, acquire, or receive in abundance. |
| knave |
an unscrupulous person; evildoer. |
| multiplicity |
a large number; abundance. |
| opportune |
favorable or suitable, especially in relation to time. |
| pastoral |
of or relating to the country or country life; rural. |
| pillage |
to openly and forcefully seize goods from, as during a war; plunder. |
| profundity |
that which involves great insight or intellectual depth. |
| singe |
to burn slightly on the surface, end, or edge. |
| suppress |
to stop the activities or progress of, especially by force. |
| tribulation |
severe suffering or affliction; distress. |
| unfrock |
to deprive of priestly status. |