| alleviate |
to make (trouble or pain) easier to tolerate or accept; ease. |
| discrepancy |
lack of agreement; difference; inconsistency. |
| disinclination |
a feeling of distaste; unwillingness or reluctance. |
| electrify |
to shock, startle, or excite. |
| imperturbable |
not easily excited or disturbed; calm. |
| lobbyist |
one who attempts, on behalf of a special interest group, to influence the way legislators vote. |
| miscreant |
evil or malevolent; villainous. |
| opulence |
the condition of being luxuriant and costly. |
| perfidy |
an act or the practice of conscious, deliberate disloyalty or treachery; breach of faith. |
| placate |
to calm down and make less angry, especially by appeasement; conciliate; pacify. |
| precipice |
a steep cliff. |
| presentiment |
an intuition or sense of something about to happen; foreboding. |
| raucous |
loud, sharp, and rasping, as, at times, a bird's call or a human's voice or laugh. |
| sedulous |
steady and persistent in an action or duty; diligent. |
| vehement |
intensely emotional; impassioned; heated. |