| advert |
to direct the attention by comment or remark. |
| baneful |
causing or leading to death, destruction, or ruin; harmful or deadly. |
| coeval |
coinciding in time of origin or existence; contemporary. |
| contretemps |
an embarrassing or unfortunate happening; mishap; mischance. |
| dawdle |
to waste time; be slow. |
| hagiography |
an admiring and uncritical biography of anyone. |
| humanism |
a doctrine or mode of thought that gives highest importance to human dignity, values, potentials, and achievements. |
| impinge |
to encroach. |
| intelligentsia |
the elite class of highly learned people within a society, or those who consider themselves part of such a class. |
| pelf |
money or wealth, usually regarded with disapproval or contempt. |
| penury |
severe poverty; pennilessness. |
| pleonasm |
a redundant word, phrase, or expression. |
| precursory |
coming before and serving to indicate what will follow; premonitory. |
| solipsism |
the self-centered habit of interpreting and judging all things exclusively according to one's own concepts of meaning and value. |
| voluble |
characterized by a steady flow of words; fluent; talkative. |