nullified
(verb) make legally null and void; invalidate
conscience
(noun) an inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior
noble
(adjective) having or showing fine personal qualities or high moral principles and ideals
scrum
(noun) a disorderly crowd of people or things
contours
(noun) outlines, especially ones representing or bounding the shape or form of something
coalesce
(verb) come together to form one mass or whole
doddery
(adjective) slow and unsteady in movement because of weakness in old age
futile
(adjective) incapable of producing any useful result; pointless
quarry
(noun) a place, typically a large, deep pit, from which stone or other materials are being or have been extracted
cenotaph
(noun) a monument to someone buried elsewhere, especially one commemorating people who died in a war
bereaved
(adjective) deprived of a close relation or friend through their death
scarecrow
(noun) an object made to resemble a human figure, set up to scare birds away from a field where crops are growing
convoy
(noun) a group of ships or vehicles traveling together, typically accompanied by armed troops, warships, or other vehicles for protection
disoriented
(adjective) having lost one's sense of direction
incongruous
(adjective) not in harmony or keeping with the surroundings or other aspects of something
oblique
(adjective) neither parallel nor at a right angle to a specified or implied line; slanting
fissured
(verb) split or crack (something) to form a long, narrow opening
desecrate
(verb) treat (a sacred place or thing) with violent disrespect; violate
blockade
(verb) seal off (a place) to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving
discomfiting
(verb) make (someone) feel uneasy or embarrassed
