| accusation |
a statement that another person is guilty of a crime or error. |
| adjacent |
near or next to. |
| attest |
to show or prove the truth of. |
| breakthrough |
an important discovery in a particular field that encourages an acceleration in knowledge or expertise. |
| congenital |
existing from birth, but usually not hereditary. |
| cue1 |
anything done or said during a play that is a signal for an actor to say or do something. |
| developmental |
of or having to do with how someone or something grows and evolves from the earliest stages. |
| hierarchical |
organized by rank or level. |
| lush |
growing thick and healthy. |
| optimism |
the belief that things will turn out well or that there is always hope for something good to happen. |
| posture |
the general position of or manner of holding the body. |
| precede |
to come before in time. |
| publication |
the act of publishing printed material. |
| recalibrate |
to reset or adjust the scale of (a quantitative measuring instrument or system), usually to maintain a correspondence with a standard. |
| strait |
a narrow body of water between two larger bodies. |