| abolish |
to get rid of or do away with; end. |
| concentration |
close attention; focused mental energy. |
| ecological |
of or pertaining to the relationships between living things and their environments. |
| escalate |
to increase in intensity, scope, or size. |
| herald |
a person who conveys or announces official news; messenger. |
| hue |
a particular color, such as sky blue; shade. |
| insurgent |
one who uses armed force to rebel against one's own government. |
| intentional |
done on purpose; deliberate. |
| kin |
the members of an extended family together; relatives. |
| motive |
an idea, need, desire, or impulse that causes a person to act in a particular way or do a particular thing; reason. |
| ransack |
to search through thoroughly, especially for items to steal; plunder. |
| respectively |
in the order that two or more people or things have been named. |
| shortage |
an amount that is less than is needed; lack. |
| statistics |
(used with a singular verb) the mathematical study of numerical information, especially representative information about a limited portion of a population that is used to make generalized conclusions about the whole. |
| vague |
just barely visible or able to be perceived. |