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| social instability resulting from a breakdown of standards and values; also : personal unrest, alienation, and uncertainty that comes from a lack of purpose or ideals |
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| at once/SOON, PRESENTLY/after a while |
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| of or relating to the period before the flood described in the Bible / made, evolved, or developed a long time ago / extremely primitive or outmoded |
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| loss or impairment of the power to use or comprehend words usually resulting from brain damage |
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| the point in the orbit of an object (as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is at the greatest distance from the center of the earth ; also : the point farthest from a planet or a satellite (as the moon) reached by an object orbiting it -- compare PERIGEE / the farthest or highest point |
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| an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
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| Atavism/Atavistic/Atavistically |
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| recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination b : recurrence of or reversion to a past style, manner, outlook, approach, or activity / one that manifests atavism |
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| the ceremony accompanying the pronouncement of judgment by the Inquisition and followed by the execution of sentence by the secular authorities |
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| the incarnation of a Hindu deity / an incarnation in human form / an embodiment (as of a concept or philosophy) often in a person |
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| to verify or prove to be true in pleading a cause / to allege or assert in pleading / to declare positively |
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| Babbitt/Babbittry/Babbitty |
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| a person and especially a business or professional man who conforms unthinkingly to prevailing middle-class standards |
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| playful repartee (a quick and witty reply) |
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| something of little value, substance, or importance / any of various games involving the rolling of balls into scoring areas / a short literary or musical piece in light style |
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| prescribed or required by fashion, etiquette, or custom |
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| the illusion of remembering scenes and events when experienced for the first time / a feeling that one has seen or heard something before / something overly or unpleasantly familiar |
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| a thing accomplished and presumably irreversible |
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| an idea that dominates one's mind especially for a prolonged period |
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