corpulent |
fat; portly; obese. |
delimit |
to define or mark the boundaries of; demarcate. |
discrete |
separate and distinct. |
disinclination |
a feeling of distaste; unwillingness or reluctance. |
embellishment |
a beautifying decoration or addition. |
intolerant |
not able or not willing to accept different opinions, beliefs, customs, or people; not tolerant. |
melodrama |
behavior or events, in reality or fiction, with similarly exaggerated features or effects. |
novice |
a person with little or no experience at a particular job or activity. |
precarious |
so unstable or insecure as to be dangerous; risky. |
rebate |
a part of a payment that is returned. |
refract |
to bend (rays or waves of light, heat, sound, or the like) in passing (them) obliquely from one medium into another which transmits them at a different speed. |
reverberation |
the continuation of a sound after the source of the sound has been cut off. |
satirical |
containing or marked by the use of parody or irony to ridicule or denounce human corruptness or folly. |
sojourn |
to live for a short time in a place; stay temporarily. |
vie |
to compete with another for victory, superiority, or the like (usually followed by "for"). |