| cataract |
a large waterfall. |
| categorical |
with no exceptions or conditions; absolute. |
| contend |
to struggle; fight against difficulties or opposition. |
| deference |
respect for and submission to the desires, opinions, or judgments of another. |
| demagogue |
a leader, especially a speaker or politician, who attempts to persuade and to gain a following by appealing to the emotions and prejudices of the public, rather than by rational argument. |
| disputatious |
inclined to quarrel or provoke argument. |
| foretaste |
a partial, advance experience or realization of something that will come or happen in the future. |
| ignominy |
the condition of being in disgrace or dishonor; humiliation. |
| ostracize |
to exclude or shun, by general agreement of the group imposing the exclusion. |
| pessimistic |
feeling in a negative way about things; expecting the worst to happen. |
| presentiment |
an intuition or sense of something about to happen; foreboding. |
| rarefy |
to make less dense. |
| satiate |
to glut or fill to excess; oversupply; surfeit. |
| 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. |
| vicarious |
experienced through imagined participation in someone else's actions, sufferings, or the like. |