| cultural |
of or relating to the language, customs, ideas, and art of a particular group of people. |
| devise |
to invent or think out. |
| fundamental |
basic; central; serving as a foundation. |
| incinerate |
to consume by fire; burn completely. |
| martial |
having to do with war or military activities. |
| negligence |
disregard of, omission of, or failure to do something necessary, especially when it is habitual. |
| percentage |
some part of a whole based on a total of one hundred parts. |
| practitioner |
a person working in a trade, occupation, or profession. |
| prolong |
to add length to or make last longer. |
| prose |
writing or speech in its usual form of a series of sentences. Most language that is not poetry can be described as prose. Novels, short stories, essays, and letters are examples of writing done in prose. |
| revival |
the act or process of renewing or reviving. |
| specific |
pertaining to a particular thing or person and to nothing else of the same kind; particular. |
| spectrum |
a band of colors that is formed when light is passed through a prism, or in some other way. The six colors of a spectrum are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. |
| synthetic |
made with chemicals formed in a laboratory instead of something found in nature; man-made; artificial. |
| unavoidable |
impossible to avoid or escape; inevitable. |