| aberration |
a deviation from what is considered normal or right; irregularity. |
| adulteration |
the act or process of making worse or impure by adding unnecessary or inferior ingredients. |
| 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. |
| coalesce |
to grow together or unite to form a single body or organization; unify; fuse. |
| effrontery |
shameless impudence; insolence. |
| epicure |
a person who has cultivated tastes, as in food or wine; connoisseur. |
| glut |
a greater supply or amount than is needed. |
| intersperse |
to place or scatter among other things. |
| oblique |
not direct or straightforward in intent, means, or achievement; indirect or devious. |
| pleonasm |
a redundant word, phrase, or expression. |
| regicide |
the murderer of a king. |
| remonstrate |
to say in opposition, protest, or objection. |
| sartorial |
of or pertaining to tailors or tailored clothing, especially men's clothing. |
| transpose |
to exchange the position or order of (two things). |