| annals |
a chronological record of events, usually year by year. |
| bonanza |
anything that brings great wealth and prosperity. |
| grandiloquence |
speech that is pretentious, pompous, or excessively mannered. |
| incriminate |
to show involvement in a crime. |
| irony |
a manner of using language so that it conveys a different or opposite meaning to that which is literally expressed in the words themselves. Irony is used in ordinary conversation and also as a literary technique, especially to express criticism or to produce humor or pathos. |
| neutrality |
the foreign policy of a nation that refuses to take sides in an international dispute. |
| peccadillo |
a minor sin or offense, or a slight fault. |
| pessimism |
the belief that events will turn out badly; tendency to expect the worst. |
| presumptive |
affording a reasonable basis for belief. |
| reparation |
the act or process of making amends for wrongdoing or injury. |
| sear1 |
to burn or scorch the outside of. |
| shard |
a piece of a broken object, especially a fragment of pottery or glass. |
| surveillance |
a close watch or observation, especially of a person or group of people under suspicion. |
| trite |
ineffective or stale because of frequent repetition; commonplace; hackneyed. |
| trove |
a collection of valuable or desirable things. |