3 DEF

Adversary

(n.) an enemy, opponent

Alienate

(v.) to turn away; to make indifferent or hostile; to transfer, convey

Artifice

(n.) a skillful or ingenious device; a clever trick; a clever skill; trickery

Coerce

(v.) to compel, force

Craven

(adj.) cowardly

(n.) a coward

Culinary

(adj.) of or related to cooking or the kitchen

Demise

(n.) a death, especially of a person in a lofty position

Exhilarate

(v.) to enliven, cheer, give spirit or liveliness to

Fallow

(adj.) plowed but not seeded; inactive; reddish-yellow

(n.) land left unseeded

(v.) to plow but not seed

Harass

(v.) to disturb, worry; to trouble by repeated attacks

Inclement

(adj.) stormy, harsh; severe in attitude or action

Liquidate

(v.) to pay a debt, settle an account; to eliminate

Muse

(v.) to think about in a dreamy way, ponder

Negligible

(adj.) so unimportant that it can be disregarded

Perpetuate

(v.) to make permanent or long lasting

Precedent

(n.) an example that may serve as a basis for imitation or later action

Punitive

(adj.) inflicting or aiming at punishment

Redress

(v.) to set right, remedy

(n.) relief from wrong or injury

Sojourn

(n.) a temporary stay

(v.) to stay for a time

Urbane

(adj.) refined in manner or style, suave