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accomplice
- (n) a person who takes part in a crime
- Syn: partner in crime, confederate
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annihilate
- (v) to destroy completely
- Syn: obliterate, decimate, demolish
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arbitrary
- (adj) unreasonable; based on one's wishes or whims wihtout regard for reason or fairness
- Syn: capricious, high-handed, autocratic
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brazen
- (adj) shameless, impudent; made of brass
- Syn: saucy, bold
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catalyst
- (n) a substance that causes or hastens a chemical reaction; any agent that causes damage
- Syn: stimulus, spur, instigator
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exodus
- (n) a large-scale departure of flight
- Syn: emigration, escape, hegira
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facilitate
- (v) to make easier; to assist
- Syn: ease, smooth the way, simplify
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incorrigible
- (adj) not able to be corrected; beyond control
- Syn: unruly, intractable, incurable, inveterate
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latent
- (adj) hidden, present but not realized
- Syn: dormant, inactive, undeveloped
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militant
- (adj) given to fighting; active and aggressive in support of a cause; (n) an activist
- Syn: (adj) truculent
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morose
- (adj) having a gloomy or sullen manner; not friendly or sociable
- Syn: morbid, doleful
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opaque
- (adj) not letting light through; not clear or lucid; dense, stupid
- Syn: hazy, cloudy, foggy, murky, dull, obtuse
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paramount
- (adj) chief in importance, above all others
- Syn: supreme, foremost, primary, dominant
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prattle
- (v) to talk in an aimless, foolish, or simple way; to babble; (n) baby talk, babble
- Syn: (v) chatter; (n) twaddle, gibberish, piffle
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rebut
- (v) to offer arguments or evidence that contradicts an assertion; to refute
- Syn: disprove, confute, shoot holes in
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reprimand
- (v) to scold; find fault with; (n) rebuke
- Syn: (v) reprove, reproach; (n) reproof
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servitude
- (n) slavery, forced labor
- Syn: captivity, bondage, thralldom
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slapdash
- (adj) careless and hasty
- Syn: cursory, perfunctory, sloppy, slipshod
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stagnant
- (adj) not running or flowing; foul from standing still; inactive, sluggish, dull
- Syn: still motionless, inert, fetid
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succumb
- (v) to give way to superior force, yield
- Syn: submit, die, expire
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