To bring into harmony; to make aware or responsive.

One who attends or assists a mentor or leader.

Conspicuously bad or offensive.

Sheer, light, and delicate; tenuous or flimsy.

Characterized by resolute fearlessness, fortitude, and endurance.

To win over by coaxing, flattery, or artful talk; to con or manipulate.

One who serves merely for wages, especially a soldier hired into foreign service.

Caught up in the pursuit of unreachable goals; foolishly idealistic and impractical.

An act or instance of changing or being changed in form or nature.

“This is a difficult chapter for me to write—not because my own youthful mistakes were so ________… but because I may be making a mistake now” (Wendy Lesser, Nothing Remains the Same: Rereading and Remembering).

“It was ________ who guaranteed the success of the rebellion” (B.F. Reilly).

“[T]he needle nose of the narwhal, the ________ wing of a butterfly… the marvelous globe of the human eye somehow ready upon arrival out of a dark world instantly to receive light” (Jennifer Ackerman, Chance in the House of Fate).

“[W]hat I like best in you is this particular enthusiasm, which is not at all practical or sensible, which is downright ________” (Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark).

“Melmotte is, in short, a mighty con artist: we are on to him almost instantly. Our interest is not in finding out his scam, but in watching him ________ and enmesh the gullible” (Cynthia Ozick, The New York Times Book Review).

Of or relating to struggle within a nation, organization, or group.

A person or thing that comes before another of the same kind; a forerunner.

To renounce upon oath or reject solemnly.

 A formation of groups or individuals. A level of authority in a hierarchy; a rank.

Noble in mind and heart; generous and unselfish.