| crisis | (noun) a crucial stage or turning point in the course of something | - |
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| (noun) an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty | - |
| derision | (noun) the act of deriding or treating with contempt | Synonyms: ridicule |
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| (noun) contemptuous laughter | - |
| derisive | (adjective) abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule | Synonyms: gibelike, jeering, mocking, taunting |
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| derisively | (adverb) in a disrespectful and mocking manner | Synonyms: derisorily, mockingly, scoffingly |
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| enterprising | (adjective) marked by imagination, initiative, and readiness to undertake new projects | - |
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| enterprisingly | (adverb) in an enterprising manner | - |
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| enterprisingness | (noun) readiness to embark on bold new ventures | Synonyms: enterprise, go-ahead, initiative |
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| familiarising | (adjective) serving to make familiar | Synonyms: familiarizing |
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| matrisib | (noun) one related on the mother's side | Synonyms: enate, matrikin, matrilineal kin, matrilineal sib |
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| nonenterprising | (adjective) lacking in enterprise; not bold or venturesome | Synonyms: unenterprising |
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| patrisib | (noun) one related on the father's side | Synonyms: agnate, patrikin, patrilineal kin, patrilineal sib |
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| risibility | (noun) a disposition to laugh | - |
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| risible | (adjective) arousing or provoking laughter | Synonyms: amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful |
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| rising | (adjective) advancing or becoming higher or greater in degree or value or status | - |
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| (adjective) sloping upward | Synonyms: acclivitous, uphill |
| (adjective) coming to maturity | Synonyms: emerging |
| (adjective) newly come into prominence | - |
| (noun) organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another | Synonyms: insurrection, rebellion, revolt, uprising |
| (noun) a movement upward; rise above the ground | Synonyms: ascension, ascent, rise |
| surprising | (adjective) causing surprise or wonder or amazement | - |
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| surprisingly | (adverb) in a surprising manner | - |
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| (adverb) in an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise | Synonyms: amazingly, astonishingly |
| surprisingness | (noun) extraordinariness by virtue of being unexpected | Synonyms: unexpectedness |
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| unenterprising | (adjective) lacking in enterprise; not bold or venturesome | Synonyms: nonenterprising |
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| unsurprising | (adjective) not causing surprise | - |
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| uprising | (noun) organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another | Synonyms: insurrection, rebellion, revolt, rising |
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| verisimilar | (adjective) appearing to be true or real | - |
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| verisimilitude | (noun) the appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true | - |
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