| apostate |
a person who abandons his or her religious faith, principles, cause, or the like. |
| compile |
to gather information together to form one written work. |
| conductive |
having the ability to allow the passage of electricity |
| correlate |
to have a causal, complementary, parallel, or reciprocal relationship. |
| desist |
to stop acting in a certain way. |
| hedonist |
one who believes that pleasure-seeking should be the primary goal of humans. |
| ingratiate |
to seek or secure another's favor or approval for (oneself). |
| meticulous |
very careful or precise. |
| myopia |
a visual defect in which distant images are focused in front of rather than on the retina; nearsightedness. |
| preposterous |
totally unlikely, unbelievable, or senseless; absurd. |
| recompense |
payment or action to compensate for the expenditure or loss of time, money, property, or the like. |
| savant |
a person of deep learning; scholar. |
| substantive |
of or pertaining to the fundamental nature or concerns of something; essential. |
| ulterior |
beyond or excluded from what is openly admitted or shown, especially when concealed for the purposes of deception. |
| voracious |
consuming large quantities of food with greed or great desire; ravenous. |