| acclimate |
to become used to new weather conditions or surroundings. |
| apathy |
lack of interest or feeling. |
| auditory |
having to do with or referring to hearing or the sense of hearing. |
| beneficiary |
one who receives or is formally designated to receive money or property, as from a will or insurance policy. |
| capitalist |
one who supports an economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately owned, and prices are chiefly determined by open competition in a free market. |
| corpulent |
fat; portly; obese. |
| derivation |
the source of a thing; origin. |
| jocose |
inclined to joke; jovial; merry. |
| lewd |
characterized by vulgarity or offensively explicit sexual references; bawdy. |
| monumental |
massive, imposing, or extremely conspicuous. |
| outmoded |
no longer in keeping with current standards or practices; obsolete. |
| penance |
an act of punishment or self-discipline voluntarily undergone to show regret at having done something wrong. |
| pollinate |
to move or carry pollen to a plant, causing the seeds to be fertilized. |
| refract |
to bend (rays or waves of light, heat, sound, or the like) in passing (them) obliquely from one medium into another which transmits them at a different speed. |
| revulsion |
violent dislike and disgust; abhorrence; loathing. |