| abject |
of the lowest or most wretched kind. |
| affluent |
having a lot of money; rich; wealthy. |
| capitulate |
to surrender or acquiesce. |
| concurrent |
existing or occurring at the same time. |
| egoism |
the tendency to evaluate everything in relation to one's own interests; self-centeredness. |
| emaciated |
extremely thin, as from starvation or disease. |
| ethereal |
highly refined; unworldly. |
| expatriate |
one who has gone into exile from or renounced allegiance to his or her native land. |
| forestall |
to prevent or hinder by taking action beforehand. |
| monochromatic |
having or using only a single color or shades of one color. |
| myopia |
a visual defect in which distant images are focused in front of rather than on the retina; nearsightedness. |
| namesake |
one who has been named after another. |
| perturb |
to cause great disturbance in (the mind); agitate or worry. |
| repressive |
acting or tending to restrain or subdue. |
| trite |
ineffective or stale because of frequent repetition; commonplace; hackneyed. |