| attraction |
the act or power of drawing things or people near. |
| confront |
to meet, face, or stand up to boldly. |
| correspondent |
a person who reports news or contributes articles regularly to a newspaper, magazine, TV network, or the like, from a distant area. |
| depletion |
drastic lessening; exhaustion. |
| emphatic |
forceful, determined, or insistent in speech or action. |
| engineering |
the study and practice of using scientific and mathematical knowledge to do practical things. Knowledge of engineering is needed to design and build roads, bridges, tools, and machines. |
| epic |
having to do with a long poem that tells the story of a hero or heroine. |
| fabrication |
a statement, document, or the like that is false or invented to deceive. |
| finance |
to provide money for. |
| historian |
one who writes about or is an expert on history. |
| lax |
not rigorous, strict, or careful; loose; lenient. |
| marvel |
a thing, person, or event that causes wonder or amazement. |
| mockery |
contempt, derision, or ridicule, or an instance of this. |
| prose |
writing or speech in its usual form of a series of sentences. Most language that is not poetry can be described as prose. Novels, short stories, essays, and letters are examples of writing done in prose. |
| righteous |
morally upright. |