| behalf |
support; aid (used with "in" or "on" and followed by "of"). |
| crucial |
very important; deciding the success or failure of something. |
| crypt |
a burial chamber or underground vault, especially one beneath a church. |
| doom |
an event or end that one cannot escape; fate; destiny. |
| favorable |
showing the promise of something good. |
| humane |
showing kindness or mercy. |
| missionary |
a person who is sent by a church or religious order to a foreign country to teach, convert, heal, or serve. |
| proposal |
a suggested plan. |
| recalibrate |
to reset or adjust the scale of (a quantitative measuring instrument or system), usually to maintain a correspondence with a standard. |
| regulator |
a person or thing that keeps an activity or action to a certain standard or set of laws. |
| sanctuary |
a holy or sacred place. |
| siege |
a military act of surrounding a city or base, attacking it, and cutting off supplies. The goal of a siege is to force the city or fort to surrender. |
| snub |
to ignore as a way to show dislike, dissatisfaction, or contempt. |
| spiritual |
of or pertaining to the soul or matters of the soul, the part of a human being that is believed to be the higher or deeper self and not part of the body. |
| undo |
to release from or remove wrapping or fastening from. |