| coroner |
a public officer employed to investigate by inquest any death not thought to have occurred by natural causes. |
| designate |
to choose for a particular job or purpose. |
| diverge |
to extend or move away in different directions from a common point. |
| entail |
to call for or bring about as a necessary accompaniment; necessarily involve. |
| felon1 |
a person who has committed a serious crime, such as murder, rape, or burglary, as opposed to a misdemeanor. |
| fervor |
strength, heatedness, or intensity of feeling; impassioned enthusiasm. |
| invariably |
without ever a change; on every occasion. |
| perfidy |
an act or the practice of conscious, deliberate disloyalty or treachery; breach of faith. |
| polemic |
an emphatic statement of a controversial viewpoint, usually criticizing or refuting an existing position. |
| reaffirm |
to verify by asserting again. |
| receptive |
open and willing to accommodate new thoughts and ideas. |
| redress |
compensation or reparation; amends. |
| refract |
to bend (rays or waves of light, heat, sound, or the like) in passing (them) obliquely from one medium into another which transmits them at a different speed. |
| submissive |
inclined or obliged to submit; unresisting; obedient; docile. |
| tangent |
a line of discussion leading away from the original topic; digression. |