| askew |
not straight; crooked. |
| capitulate |
to surrender or acquiesce. |
| cistern |
a tank or other receptacle for catching and storing water, especially rainwater. |
| conflagration |
a large, damaging fire. |
| devious |
not the straightest, most direct way; winding; roundabout. |
| focal |
of or relating to focus. |
| gentry |
people who come from families of high social standing. |
| indubitable |
without question; certain. |
| inept |
lacking skill or aptitude; incompetent. |
| limbo1 |
(often capitalized) in theology, a place neither in heaven nor hell for souls neither saved nor condemned, such as those of unbaptized infants. |
| realist |
a person who tends to see or present things as they actually are. |
| reprehensible |
deserving of blame or reproof; condemnable; blameworthy. |
| sodden |
drenched with liquid; saturated; soaked. |
| subvert |
to overthrow or destroy, or cause the destruction of (an established authority, especially a national government). |
| synthesis |
the combining of discrete elements into a unified compound or entity, or the unified whole formed by such a combining. |