assuage |
to make less severe or more bearable; alleviate. |
conjoin |
to combine for a common purpose. |
curmudgeon |
an irritable or ill-tempered person. |
demarcate |
to set apart or separate, as if with boundaries. |
deracinate |
to pull up by or as if by the roots; uproot; isolate; exile. |
diatribe |
a bitter, abusive attack in speech or writing. |
etiolate |
to weaken, especially through deprivation of normal development. |
heterodox |
deviating from an officially approved belief or doctrine, especially in religion. |
highbrow |
one who has or pretends to have highly sophisticated intellectual and cultural interests and tastes (often used disparagingly). |
impute |
to ascribe or attribute to a source or cause. |
inveigle |
to entice or ensnare by clever talk or flattery. |
laureate |
one honored for achievement in a particular field or by a particular award, especially in the arts or sciences. |
peripatetic |
walking or traveling around; going from place to place; itinerant. |
prerogative |
an exclusive right or privilege derived from one's office, position, age, citizenship, birth, or the like. |
Saturnalia |
an occasion of unrestrained revelry. |