Stratagem
a plan, scheme, or trick to achieve a goal or gain an advantage.
Compliance
the act of conforming, acquiescing, or yielding.
Depravity
moral wickedness or evil; corruption.
Chattel
any article of tangible property other than land or buildings; a slave.
Pious
showing reverence for God and one's religious duties.
Divest
to strip or deprive someone of something; to get rid of.
Precept
a commandment or rule of moral conduct.
Apprehension
suspicion or fear of future trouble or evil.
Urchin
a mischievous boy; any small boy or youngster.
Vindication
a defense or justification.
Abhor
to detest utterly; to loathe.
Animate
alive; possessing life.
Treacherous
deceptive, untrustworthy, unreliable.
Abolition
the legal prohibition and ending of slavery.
Hew
to make, shape, or smooth with cutting blows.
Proprietary
pertaining to property or ownership.
Sporadic
happening at irregular intervals; occasional.
Bohemian
a person, as an artist or writer, who lives and acts free of regard for
conventional rules and practices.
Dilettante
a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement,
especially in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler.
Staple
a basic or necessary item of food.
Boon
something to be thankful for; a blessing or benefit.
Skulk
to move in a stealthy manner; slink.
Pristine
having its original purity; uncorrupted, unsullied.
Disparage
to speak of or treat slightingly; belittle.
Contingency
a contingent event; a chance, accident, or possibility conditional on something uncertain
Feasible
capable of being done or accomplished; probable, likely.
Hock
to pawn; to deposit as security for money borrowed.
Dualism
the philosophical view that there are just two mutually irreducible
substances (that is, matter and spirit).
Sate
to satisfy fully; to fill to excess.
Confound
to perplex or amaze; to bewilder or confuse.
Gadfly
a person who persistently annoys or provokes others with criticism, demands, etc.
Status quo
the existing state or condition.
Relegate
to send or consign to an inferior position, place, or condition.
Existential
pertaining to existence or to existentialism.
Ideology
the body of doctrine or belief that guides an individual, social movement, or group.
Zeitgeist
the spirit of the time; the general trend of thought or feeling characteristic of a particular period.
Repressed
characterized by psychological repression, the rejection from
consciousness of painful feelings, conflicts, memories, etc.
Bosom
the breast, especially conceived as the center of feelings or emotions.
Blatant
brazenly obvious; flagrant.
Pious
showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or willingness to fulfill religious
obligations.
Sanctimonious
making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, piety, etc.
Secular
pertaining to worldly things, things not regarded as religious or sacred.
Clarion
clear and shrill. (often in the phrase clarion call)
Laxity
the state of being lax, that is, not strict or severe; looseness, leniency.
Mores
folkways of central importance and embodying the moral values of a group.