| allegory |
in art or literature, the use of concrete characters, events, or things, to represent abstract qualities or ideas, often to make a point about good and evil. |
| benefactor |
one who helps or brings good to an individual or an institution, usually by giving money. |
| chauvinist |
one who has a biased belief in the superiority of one's own sex over the other. |
| culminate |
to arrive at a climax or conclusion (usually followed by "in"). |
| disarray |
confusion or disorder. |
| dissipate |
to cause to disappear by, or as though by, dispersing or dissolving. |
| dub1 |
to name or call. |
| foray |
a quick raid or sudden advance, usually military and often to take forage or plunder. |
| iterate |
to say or do again or repeatedly. |
| malediction |
the expression of a wish that evil or harm come to someone; curse. |
| obsequious |
showing or tending to show servile obedience or deference; fawning. |
| 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. |
| scapegoat |
one made to bear the blame for the wrongs of others. |
| subtlety |
the quality or condition of being difficult to detect or define. |
| transmute |
to change into another form, substance, state, or the like. |