| affirm |
to state or declare as true. |
| brawl |
a noisy fight or argument. |
| category |
a particular section of a main group; class. |
| chronic |
tending to a certain behavior or illness over a long time or without stopping. |
| correspondent |
a person who reports news or contributes articles regularly to a newspaper, magazine, TV network, or the like, from a distant area. |
| cylinder |
a solid figure with a shape similar to that of a can, a round flat cake, or a round tube with closed ends. A cylinder has parallel circular faces joined by one curved face. |
| din |
a loud, steady noise. |
| ecology |
the scientific study of the relationships between living things and their environments. |
| generate |
to bring into being or to produce. |
| monotonous |
not interesting because of having to do the same thing over and over. |
| precursor |
an earlier or previous person, group, event, or form of something; predecessor. |
| rejection |
the act of refusing to accept, take, or believe. |
| superb |
of the finest kind or quality. |
| taxonomy |
in biology, the system of classifying plants and animals by grouping them into categories according to their similarities. |
| thunderous |
producing a sound of or like thunder. |