
A place of great luxury and extravagance, usually accompanied by vice and corruption.
A blade attached to the muzzle of a gun, used in close combat.
A shortsighted or dishonorable appeasement.
To recruit someone forcibly or by fraud into doing something.
Deception by trickery or sophistry.
A state of rest, inactivity, or quietness.
1. Stubborn: not easily moved. 2. Hard-hearted: resistant to emotions.
A threshold of response: point at which a stimulus is of sufficient intensity to generate a response.
Something considered necessary or desirable.