| anathema |
something or someone despised or cursed. |
| apportion |
to assign, adjust, or distribute parts so as to maintain the proper proportion; allot. |
| artifice |
a shrewd or clever trick. |
| chattel |
any article of property not attached to lands or buildings; movable property. |
| conscription |
compulsory enrollment in military service. |
| derange |
to cause to be mentally ill. |
| feral |
existing in a wild natural state; not domesticated. |
| heresy |
a religious belief or doctrine not in keeping with the established doctrine of a church, especially the rejection of or dissent from any aspect of Roman Catholic Church dogma by a baptized church member. |
| ingrate |
an ungrateful person. |
| pestilence |
an epidemic, usually deadly, disease; plague. |
| profiteer |
a person who gains excessive profits, especially by selling scarce commodities at very high prices. |
| 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. |
| scrimmage |
a vigorous struggle; scuffle. |
| tenable |
able to be upheld, affirmed, supported, or defended; logical. |
| terse |
effectively brief and to the point; concise; pithy. |