On the rainy river vocabulary

ferocious

• strong or vehement expression of disapproval

• disposed to be silent or not to speak freely, reserved

• without emotion, apathetic; unmoved

• extreme fierceness, violence, and brutality

the wealth, whether in money or property, owned in business by an individual, firm, corporation, etc.

• comparable

• platitude

• frugal

• capital

strong or vehement expression of disapproval

• tangible

• cryptic

• censure

• threadbare

loyalty and devotion to a nation especially as praise of one nation above all others and intense concern with

promotion of its culture and interests

• comparable

• nationalism

• eviscerate

• colonialism

eviscerate

• to take out the internal organs of (an animal), disembowel; to gut

• place where something is kept in store, a large or extra supply or stock

• flat, dull remark, esp. one uttered as if it were fresh or profound

• capable of being compared, worthy of comparison

consensus

• a policy by which a nation maintains its control over foreign dependencies, control by one power over a dependent area or

  people

• to come to understand, penetrate to the truth; comprehend;

• general agreement (as in opinion or testimony), general agreement

• he act of breaking or bursting, open hostility or war between nations

official postponement of military service

• forthright

• deferment

• reservoir

• platitude

the act of breaking or bursting, open hostility or war between nations

• jingo

• consensus

• rupture

• stooge

platitude

• a government in which absolute power is held by a single ruler, unrestrained exercise of power; despotic abuse of

  authority

• honest and straightforward

• a flat, dull remark, esp. one uttered as if it were fresh or profound

• to take out the internal organs of (an animal), disembowel; to gut

fathom

• to come to understand, penetrate to the truth; comprehend;

• having a hidden meaning, mysterious in meaning; puzzling; ambiguous

• tiresome because of length or dullness

• disposed to be silent or not to speak freely; reserved