| apprehensive |
feeling fearful about future events. |
| asperity |
harshness or roughness, especially of tone or manner. |
| austerity |
a tightened or stringent economy, as when there are high taxes, frozen wages, and shortages of consumer goods. |
| beatify |
to admire or exalt as superior. |
| cynosure |
a thing or person that is the center of attention and admiration. |
| disallow |
to refuse to allow or admit; reject. |
| discountenance |
to embarrass or disconcert. |
| disheveled |
not neat; messy. |
| engender |
to create or give rise to. |
| hagiography |
an admiring and uncritical biography of anyone. |
| impediment |
an obstacle or hindrance. |
| nonfeasance |
in law, failure to perform a required duty, as by a public official. |
| 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. |
| travesty |
something so grotesque or inferior as to seem a parody. |