| deficit |
The amount by which something is less than what is needed. A deficit of money is caused by spending more than has been taken in. |
| embalm |
to treat (a corpse) with preservatives before burial. |
| gallantry |
admirable courage. |
| impecunious |
lacking funds; penniless. |
| loquacious |
given to talking much or excessively; garrulous. |
| opprobrium |
a condition of disgrace or shame; ignominy. |
| Philistine |
(sometimes lower case) one who is ignorant of, smugly indifferent to, or hostile to aesthetic and cultural values. |
| ponderous |
heavily labored and dull. |
| profess |
to claim or state as true. |
| protuberance |
that which projects; bulge or bump. |
| recount |
to tell a history of events; relate; narrate. |
| revulsion |
violent dislike and disgust; abhorrence; loathing. |
| slake |
to satisfy or relieve (thirst, appetite, lust, or the like) by decreasing the strength or intensity of. |
| titular |
having a title but none of the power or responsibility related to it; nominal. |
| unobservable |
not able to be seen; not detectable. |