| adulteration |
the act or process of making worse or impure by adding unnecessary or inferior ingredients. |
| beatify |
to admire or exalt as superior. |
| contumacious |
stubbornly disobedient; insubordinate; rebellious. |
| descry |
to see or make out, especially something obscured or at a distance. |
| emote |
to express or simulate feelings, especially in an exaggerated or theatrical manner. |
| entreat |
to beg for something, or to do something. |
| festoon |
a decorative chain or strip of ribbons, flowers, leaves, or the like, suspended at the ends and hung in a curve. |
| homily |
any discourse offering moral advice or admonitions. |
| indistinct |
not clearly perceived or perceiving. |
| indurate |
to make hard in texture; harden. |
| opprobrious |
expressing condemnation or scorn; accusing of shameful behavior. |
| plaudit |
(often plural) an enthusiastic show of approval, such as a round of applause or a very favorable review. |
| profligate |
totally given over to immoral and shameful pursuits; dissolute. |
| recurve |
to bend or curve back or backward, as the ends of certain shooting bows. |
| solipsism |
the self-centered habit of interpreting and judging all things exclusively according to one's own concepts of meaning and value. |