| bonanza |
anything that brings great wealth and prosperity. |
| consolidate |
to join together into a whole; combine. |
| credible |
believable or plausible. |
| noxious |
harmful, dangerous, or destructive, especially to health. |
| optic |
of or concerning the eye or the sense of sight. |
| pique |
to cause (a feeling or action) to be aroused or incited. |
| plight1 |
a state or situation, especially an unhappy or unlucky one; predicament. |
| proxy |
a person who is authorized to act for or on behalf of another, especially as a voter; substitute. |
| realist |
a person who tends to see or present things as they actually are. |
| rectitude |
moral or ethical propriety; uprightness. |
| rehabilitate |
to restore to good health or to an otherwise improved state of being. |
| slacken |
to decrease activity, strength, speed, intensity, or the like. |
| sobriety |
abstinence from alcohol; temperance. |
| torpid |
dormant or inactive, as in hibernation. |
| vicarious |
experienced through imagined participation in someone else's actions, sufferings, or the like. |