A person who abandons their post or duties (relating specifically to the military)
What is a 'deserter'?
Lacking any obvious formal organization
What is 'haphazard'?
To bestow, award, or hold a discussion
What is 'conferred'?
A large, deep metal vessel, typically used for boiling liquids of cooking over an open fire
What is a 'cauldron'?
The process of bringing or returning something to a normal condition or state
What is 'normalization'?
Excessive worry or distrust without concrete evidence
What is 'paranoia'?
A small boat/raft
What is a 'dinghy'?
To suddenly spring, flinch, or draw back in fear, horror, or disgust
What is 'recoiled'?
Firm determination to do something
What is 'resolve'?
The concluding passage of a piece (of music) or movement, typically forming an addition to the basic structure
A calm interval
What is a 'lull'?
A fleet of small watercraft, often acting as a tactical unit within a larger military
What is a 'flotilla'?
A slender threadlike appendage of a climbing plant, often growing in spiral form, that stretches and twines around any suitable support
What is a 'tendril'?
An arrival or entry of large numbers of people or things
What is an 'influx'?
A person who does not believe in a certain religion
What is an 'infidel'?
To flow
What is 'sluice'?
Showing little or no activity, sluggish or dull
What is 'stagnant'?
A person, especially a soldier who rebels or refuses to obey the orders of a person in authority
What are 'mutineers'?
A cunning plan or action designed to turn a situation to one's own advantage
What is a 'ploy'?
Grimy and miserable, due to poverty
What is 'squalid'?
What is 'churlish'?
An officer aboard a ship who keeps accounts and attends to the pasenger's wellbeing
What is a 'purser'?
A long and eventful or adevnturous journey or experience; an ancient greek text
What is an 'odyssey'?
With affect from a date in the past
What is 'retroactively'?