| alcove |
a partly enclosed area of a room. |
| clique |
a small, often aggressively exclusive group of friends or associates. |
| compassion |
a feeling of sharing another's suffering that leads to a desire to help. |
| consort |
a wife or husband, especially of a royal personage. |
| criminality |
the condition or fact of being against the law; illegality. |
| culmination |
the highest point; zenith; climax. |
| disputation |
the act or process of arguing or debating a topic. |
| esoteric |
understood or known only by a few persons who have special training, access, or interests. |
| insidious |
dangerous through cunning, subtlety, and underhandedness. |
| revert |
to return to a previous state, practice, belief, or the like. |
| secular |
of or concerning the world and material concerns as opposed to religious or spiritual concerns; temporal. |
| spontaneous |
happening in a free way; not forced. |
| stupor |
a state of unconsciousness, insensibility, or torpor. |
| subvert |
to overthrow or destroy, or cause the destruction of (an established authority, especially a national government). |
| unspoken |
assumed without being expressed or spoken; implied. |