| acrimonious |
filled with bitterness or rancor. |
| distillation |
the process of heating a substance to produce a vapor, which is then cooled and condensed, in order to purify, concentrate, or extract components from the substance. |
| duplicity |
deceitful speech or action. |
| egregious |
remarkably bad; flagrant; glaring. |
| impede |
to slow or block the movement or progress of; hinder. |
| jollity |
the state or quality of being merry; gaiety. |
| lechery |
excessive or vulgar interest in sex; prurience. |
| marquee |
a canopy or a covering like a roof over the entrance to a building. The marquee over a theater shows the title of the current play or film and sometimes the names of the actors. |
| mendacious |
untruthful. |
| piety |
worshipful devotion to and veneration of God or family. |
| recipient |
one who accepts something that has been sent or given, or one who has been awarded something. |
| revel |
to feel great pleasure; rejoice (usually followed by "in"). |
| satirical |
containing or marked by the use of parody or irony to ridicule or denounce human corruptness or folly. |
| scourge |
someone or something that inflicts punishment or causes suffering or destruction. |
| singular |
extraordinary or exceptional. |