| apprise |
to inform (often followed by "of"). |
| bereft |
deprived or stripped of something. |
| disencumber |
to remove burdens or hindrances from. |
| epicure |
a person who has cultivated tastes, as in food or wine; connoisseur. |
| fungible |
interchangeable. |
| granulate |
to make into small particles or grains. |
| 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. |
| indistinct |
not clearly perceived or perceiving. |
| indulgent |
gratifying, or being inclined to gratify or yield to others' wishes, especially rather than enforcing discipline or strictness. |
| invidious |
tending to arouse feelings of resentment or animosity, especially because of a slight; offensive or discriminatory. |
| reconnoiter |
to go through or over (an area) so as to gain information about it, as for military or engineering purposes. |
| solecism |
a gross violation of convention in grammar, etiquette, or the like; impropriety. |
| 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. |
| vitiate |
to harm the quality of; mar; spoil. |