| artisan |
a person skilled in making things, especially by using the hands. People such as those who make furniture, quilts, or other crafts are artisans. |
| epigram |
a short, pithy, often paradoxical sentence. |
| fetid |
having a foul odor; stinking. |
| fickle |
quickly changing without reason or warning, especially in affection or allegiance; variable or capricious. |
| habitable |
capable of being lived in. |
| implacable |
not to be pacified or diverted; unappeasable or inexorable. |
| intolerance |
inability or unwillingness to accept the existence or validity of opinions, beliefs, customs, and practices different from one's own. |
| nonexistent |
not having substance in reality. |
| orientation |
the act or process of preparing oneself or others for a new situation. |
| patriarch |
a man who is the leader of a family or tribe. |
| preempt |
to seize or appropriate ahead of others. |
| presentiment |
an intuition or sense of something about to happen; foreboding. |
| reaffirm |
to verify by asserting again. |
| vertigo |
a sensation of unsteadiness or dizziness, such that one's surroundings seem to be whirling around. |
| zenith |
the highest point; peak. |