1. CONFLUENCE 3.

MONOLITHIC
noun adjective
the junction of two rivers, especially rivers of approximately equal formed of a single large block of stone.
width. "later Byzantine columns were monolithic and usually made of
SYNONYMS: CONVERGENCE, MEETING, JUNCTION, marble"
JOINING, CONFLUX, (of an organization or system) large, powerful, indivisible, and slow
"the confluence of the Rhine and the Mosel" to change.
an act or process of merging. "rejecting any move towards a monolithic European superstate"
"a major confluence of the world's financial markets" SYNONYMS: INFLEXIBLE, RIGID, UNBENDING,
UNCHANGING, INTRACTABLE, IMMOVABLE.

2. EPOCH 4. PROVIDENT
noun adjective
a particular period of time in history or a person's life. making or indicative of timely preparation for the future.
"the Victorian epoch" "she had learned to be provident"
SYNONYMS: ERA, AGE, PERIOD, TIME, AEON, SPAN SYNONYMS: PRUDENT, FAR-SIGHTED, JUDICIOUS,
the beginning of a period in the history of someone or something. SHREWD, CIRCUMSPECT, FOREARMED, WISE,
"these events marked an epoch in their history" SAGACIOUS,
SYNONYMS: ERA, AGE, PERIOD, TIME, AEON, SPAN
a division of time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself
subdivided into ages, corresponding to a series in chronostratigraphy. 5. SIMILE
(Geology) noun
"the Pliocene epoch"
SYNONYMS: ERA, AGE, PERIOD, TIME, AEON, SPAN a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another
thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or
vivid (e.g. as brave as a lion ).
"his audacious deployment of simile and metaphor"
6. TREMULOUS 9. INSENSIBLE
adjective adjective
shaking or quivering slightly. 1. without one's mental faculties, typically as a result of injury or
"Barbara's voice was tremulous" intoxication; unconscious.
SYNONYMS: SHAKY, TREMBLING, SHAKING, UNSTEADY, "they knocked each other insensible with their fists"
QUAVERING, WAVERING SYNONYMS: UNCONSCIOUS, INSENSATE, SENSELESS,
timid; nervous. INSENTIENT, COMATOSE.
"he gave a tremulous smile" 2. unaware of or indifferent to.
SYNONYMS: TIMID, DIFFIDENT, SHY, UNCERTAIN, "they slept on, insensible to the headlight beams"
TIMOROUS SYNONYMS: UNAWARE OF, IGNORANT OF, WITHOUT
KNOWLEDGE OF, UNCONSCIOUS OF.

7. DEPRECATE
verb 10. FANATICAL
adjective
1. express disapproval of.
"what I deprecate is persistent indulgence" 1. filled with excessive and single-minded zeal.
SYNONYMS: DISAPPROVE OF, DEPLORE, ABHOR, FIND "fanatical revolutionaries"
UNACCEPTABLE, BE AGAINST. SYNONYMS: ZEALOUS, EXTREMIST, EXTREME,
2. another term for depreciate (sense 2). MILITANT, DOGMATIC, SECTARIAN
"he deprecates the value of children's television" 2. obsessively concerned with something.
"her husband was fanatical about tidiness"
SYNONYMS: ENTHUSIASTIC, EAGER, KEEN, FERVENT,
8. SHAM ARDENT, FERVID, PASSIONATE, DEVOTED
noun/ adjective/ verb
1. a thing that is not what it is purported to be.
"our current free health service is a sham"
2. bogus; false.
"a clergyman who arranged a sham marriage"
SYNONYMS: FAKE, PRETENDED, FEIGNED, SIMULATED,
3. falsely present something as the truth.
"was he ill or was he shamming?"