| calamity |
an event causing great harm, pain, or destruction; disaster. |
| censor |
an official who decides what art, movies, or books may be published. A censor works for a government, religion, or other organization, and promotes its ideas. |
| clamor |
a loud noise that goes on for sometime. |
| coincidental |
of two things, occurring at the same time, or having some other correspondence, by chance and not as a result of a cause or motive. |
| eligible |
qualified for something; in a position to be chosen. |
| famine |
a great lack of food over a wide area. |
| jubilee |
a particularly celebrated anniversary, such as the fiftieth, or the celebration itself. |
| latency |
the state of being present but not yet apparent, developed, or operative. |
| matrix |
an environment that gives form to or provides for the origin or development of something. |
| peninsula |
a piece of land surrounded on nearly all sides by water. It is connected to a larger body of land by a usually narrow strip of land. |
| refine |
to make pure or fine. |
| resolution |
strong purpose or determination. |
| segment |
one of the parts into which something is or can be separated. |
| successive |
following one after another. |
| vicinity |
an area near or around a place; somewhere nearby. |