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a person who does not accept a particular faith, especially Christianity. |
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lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy. |
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giving form or shape; forming; shaping; fashioning; molding: a formative process in manufacturing. |
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sharpness; acuteness; keenness: acuity of vision; acuity of mind. |
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to humiliate or shame, as by injury to one's pride or self-respect. |
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a point of time, especially one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances: At this juncture, we must decide whether to stay or to walk out. |
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ascribing human form or attributes to a being or thing not human, especially to a deity. |
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sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain. |
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a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed. |
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lacking definite form; having no specific shape; formless: the amorphous clouds. |
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| having the joints or connections separated: a disjointed fowl. |
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| to change the form or nature of; transform. |
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subject to death; having a transitory life: all mortal creatures. |
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| any member of a small class of words distinguished in many languages by their function as connectors between words, phrases, clauses, or sentences, as and, because, but, however. |
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Law . a judicial process or order requiring the person or persons to whom it is directed to do a particular act or to refrain from doing a particular act. |
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deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
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sharp or biting to the taste or smell; bitterly pungent; irritating to the eyes, nose, etc.: acrid smoke from burning rubber. |
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to increase the severity, bitterness, or violence of (disease, ill feeling, etc.); aggravate. |
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strict observance of promises, duties, etc.: a servant's fidelity. |
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suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc.: a morbid interest in death. |
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made according to a formula; composed of formulas: a formulaic plot. |
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| to challenge the power of; resist boldly or openly: to defy parental authority. |
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caustic, stinging, or bitter in nature, speech, behavior, etc.: an acrimonious answer; an acrimonious dispute. |
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the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country. |
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