| bibulous |
addicted to alcohol; alcoholic. |
| boorish |
rude; ill-mannered; crude. |
| commodious |
comfortably spacious; roomy. |
| despoil |
to forcefully take belongings or goods from; plunder. |
| disabuse |
to free (a person) from misconception or deception; set straight. |
| disquisition |
a formal, often lengthy, oral or written discussion of a subject. |
| granulate |
to make into small particles or grains. |
| meretricious |
appealing or attracting in a cheap, showy, or shallow way. |
| neologism |
a new word, phrase, or usage. |
| pinchbeck |
false, sham, or counterfeit. |
| recant |
to withdraw from commitment to (a former position or statement), especially publicly; retract. |
| symbiosis |
a close association, usually a mutually beneficial relationship, between two dissimilar organisms. |
| tort |
in law, any civil rather than criminal harm or injury that violates the implicit duty of each citizen not to harm others, and for which one may bring a civil suit and collect compensation. |
| triage |
a system of determining priority of medical treatment, on the basis of need, chances of survival, and the like, to victims on a battlefield or in a hospital emergency ward. |
| veneration |
a feeling of great respect; awe; reverence. |