| chasten |
to awaken conscience or bring about moral improvement through suffering, discipline, or punishment. |
| conspirator |
a person who is involved in a plot with others to perform or a criminal or wrongful act. |
| disband |
of an organized group, to break up or disperse. |
| entrench |
to establish firmly and unchangeably. |
| fodder |
feed for farm animals, such as stalks of corn cut and mixed with hay. |
| foretaste |
a partial, advance experience or realization of something that will come or happen in the future. |
| haggle |
to bargain or argue over petty differences in price, terms, or point of view. |
| juxtapose |
to bring together for the purpose of side-by-side comparison or contrast. |
| potent |
having strength; powerful. |
| prelude |
an introductory event or act; preface; preliminary. |
| ramify |
to have or produce effects or consequences that make some original matter more complex. |
| simpleminded |
not complex or sophisticated. |
| spontaneous |
happening in a free way; not forced. |
| superimpose |
to set or lay on top of or above something. |
| tangential |
barely connected to or touching a subject. |