| abut |
to adjoin or press against; be next to; border on. |
| chary |
not dispensing freely. |
| deify |
to raise to the rank of a god; consider to be a god. |
| discountenance |
to embarrass or disconcert. |
| disquisition |
a formal, often lengthy, oral or written discussion of a subject. |
| entreat |
to beg for something, or to do something. |
| exponent |
one that expounds or interprets. |
| gullible |
believing almost anything; easily tricked. |
| guru |
in a cult or religious movement, a spiritual guide or leader, sometimes believed to be divine. |
| hypocrisy |
the practice or an instance of stating or pretending to hold beliefs or principles that one does not actually live by; insincerity. |
| parlance |
manner of speaking or writing, especially word choice; vernacular. |
| picayune |
having little value or significance; small; paltry. |
| sententious |
using or marked by pompous, high-flown moralizing. |
| splenetic |
ill-tempered or spiteful. |
| uxorious |
excessively or foolishly devoted to one's wife, and often thereby submissive to her. |