| alacrity |
willing promptness. |
| apathy |
lack of interest or feeling. |
| bigotry |
intolerance of any group or belief that is not one's own, especially in the form of racial, ethnic, or religious intolerance and prejudice. |
| conductive |
having the ability to allow the passage of electricity |
| duplicity |
deceitful speech or action. |
| fallible |
capable of making mistakes; liable to error. |
| gradation |
a gradual almost imperceptible change, especially from one tone or texture to another. |
| indubitable |
without question; certain. |
| intrinsic |
being essential to or of the nature of a thing; inherent. |
| nonexistent |
not having substance in reality. |
| perfidy |
an act or the practice of conscious, deliberate disloyalty or treachery; breach of faith. |
| propound |
to propose or set forth for consideration. |
| ravish |
to overwhelm with emotion or sensation; enrapture. |
| scathing |
harshly condemning; brutal. |
| simile |
a figure of speech in which two different things are compared by using the words "like" or "as." "March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb" is an example of a simile. |