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- apocryphal
- well know but probably not true
- pied piper
- One, such as a leader, who makes irresponsible promises
- enchantment
- as spell bound
- impertinent
- rude and not respectful
- reproof
- blame, or, disapproved
- austerely
- plain and simple, someone who's strict
- exponent
- someone who supports an idea; tried to explain it and persuade others that it is good or useful
- rambling
- Lengthy and digressive: a rambling speech. Going on and on about
- patchily
- not completely enough to be useful, irregularly
- harrowing
- very frightening or shocking
- wrested
- to detach with force
the act of wrestling
- crisscross
- to make a regularly crossing/repeating pattern
- wield
- to carry and hold a weapon which you are going to use
- retreat
- The act or process of withdrawing, especially from something hazardous, formidable, or unpleasant.
- convoy
- a number of transportations traveling together
- on the face of it
- from appearances alone
- indictment
- to be a very bad sign that a system, method is very bad or wrong
- vindication
- to prove that someone or something is right or true
- resonate
- to respond closely or harmoniously
to evoke a feeling of shared emotion or belief
- lash
- hit very hard
a sudden & violent movement
- recalcitrant
- refusing to do what you are told to do, even after being punished
- nuanced
- A subtle or slight degree of difference, as in meaning, feeling, or tone; a gradation.
- fared
- to be successful/unsuccessful (fare well, how are you faring with your project?)
- philanthropist
- a rich person who gives a lot of money to help poorer
- dystopia
- madness at a distance
An imaginary place or state in which the condition of life is extremely bad, as from deprivation, oppression, or terror.
- lethal
- able to kill someone
- rampant
- out of control
- implicit
- implied or understood though not directly expressed
- suffrage
- the right to vote in national elections
- bogus
- fake, phony, made-up, untrue
- sentiments
- feeling of pity, love, sadness etc, often considered too strong or not suitable for a particular occasion/situation
- virtues
- Moral excellence and righteousness; goodness.
- mind-sets
- having the mind set up on something
- expediency
- Appropriateness to the purpose at hand; fitness.
Adherence to self-serving means
- momentum
- An essential or constituent element; a moment.
- blemish
- a flaw
- top-heavy
- Likely to topple because of an even distribution of mass, with majority being on top.
- imagery
- vivid figurative language
- topple
- fall over, stumble
- self-caricature
- (often a drawing) showing a magnification of one selves flaws
- jump-cuts
- jump in story, creating eff of discontinuity
acceleration
- obscure
- distort
- dangle
- hand free