| clique |
a small, often aggressively exclusive group of friends or associates. |
| compile |
to gather information together to form one written work. |
| cosmopolitan |
of, drawn from, or common to all the world or all the peoples of the world. |
| egregious |
remarkably bad; flagrant; glaring. |
| epigram |
a short, pithy, often paradoxical sentence. |
| haggard |
having a very tired, worried, or wasted look. |
| imprecise |
not exact, accurate, or well-defined; vague. |
| incongruity |
the condition of being inappropriate or inconsistent. |
| natal |
of or concerning one's birth. |
| noncommittal |
not revealing what one's preference, feeling, or opinion is. |
| omnivorous |
living on a diet of both plant and animal food. |
| posterity |
all generations to come. |
| primacy |
the state of being first, earliest, most essential, or most important. |
| redeem |
to make up for; balance. |
| tithe |
an amount of money, produce, or goods equal in value to a tenth of one's income, given or paid as a contribution or tax, especially to a church. |