| advantageous |
giving a benefit or advantage; helpful; useful. |
| empirical |
based on or verifiable by experience or experiment, rather than on or by theory. |
| gentry |
people who come from families of high social standing. |
| hedonistic |
adhering to or characterized by the principle that pleasure should be the primary aim in life. |
| insufferable |
incapable of being tolerated or endured; unbearable. |
| misapprehension |
a failure to understand. |
| omnipotent |
possessing infinite power; all-powerful. |
| opinionated |
having definite and unchangeable views of things, often seemingly on all subjects. |
| pauper |
a very poor person who must live on public money. |
| podium |
a raised platform, as for a speaker or orchestra conductor; dais. |
| prevalent |
generally accepted; pervasive; widespread. |
| procure |
to get or get hold of by effort; obtain. |
| refraction |
the bending of rays or waves of light, heat, sound, or the like when passed obliquely from one medium to another with a different rate of transmission. |
| relegate |
to send or consign to a condition, place, or position of lesser importance or esteem. |
| tractable |
easy to manage or guide; docile. |