| acknowledgment |
the act of acknowledging. |
| assurance |
a statement meant to give confidence. |
| criticize |
to judge what is good or bad in. |
| cylinder |
a solid figure with a shape similar to that of a can, a round flat cake, or a round tube with closed ends. A cylinder has parallel circular faces joined by one curved face. |
| devotion |
strong affection or loyalty. |
| eliminate |
to get rid of or destroy. |
| forsake |
to leave or desert. |
| futile |
unlikely to produce or incapable of producing a desired result; ineffective; useless. |
| homicide |
the act of killing another person; murder. |
| inevitable |
certain to happen; not able to be avoided. |
| intensify |
to make stronger, more acute, or more intense. |
| scoff |
to laugh at, mock, or criticize scornfully (often followed by "at"). |
| successor |
a person or thing that comes after or follows another. |
| tendency |
the fact of being likely to act in some way. |
| truce |
a stop or end of war that is agreed upon by all groups that participate; armistice. |