| alleviate |
to make (trouble or pain) easier to tolerate or accept; ease. |
| artifice |
a shrewd or clever trick. |
| catharsis |
in psychotherapy, the bringing of repressed thoughts and feelings to consciousness in order to release emotional tension, or the release itself. |
| devoid |
not having something; totally lacking. |
| echelon |
a level of authority or rank, as in an organization. |
| fiasco |
an utter and shameful failure. |
| folio |
a large sheet of paper that has been folded once to form two leaves or four pages of a book or manuscript. |
| jubilation |
a feeling of great joy, pride, and happiness; exultation. |
| nondescript |
having no individual distinctiveness; lacking in notable features. |
| prowess |
great skill or talent; superior ability. |
| refraction |
the bending of rays or waves of light, heat, sound, or the like when passed obliquely from one medium to another with a different rate of transmission. |
| salubrious |
favorable to good health; healthy; wholesome. |
| squalor |
living conditions that are filthy, or the state of being dirty or foul. |
| trove |
a collection of valuable or desirable things. |
| uncontrolled |
acting or continuing, or allowed to act or continue, without constraint, regulation, or opposition. |