| caricature |
a depiction, in a drawing or verbal description, that deliberately exaggerates or distorts some features of the person or thing represented to produce a comic or grotesque appearance. |
| confection |
a sweetened candy or fruit. |
| conflagration |
a large, damaging fire. |
| detriment |
harm, injury, or loss. |
| eddy |
to move or turn in circles or eddies. |
| heresy |
a religious belief or doctrine not in keeping with the established doctrine of a church, especially the rejection of or dissent from any aspect of Roman Catholic Church dogma by a baptized church member. |
| menial |
lowly or degrading; servile. |
| mores |
the behaviors and manners accepted and expected in a social group, embodying its fundamental moral standards. |
| ossify |
to become inflexible or rigid, as in thought or behavior. |
| patriarch |
a man who is the leader of a family or tribe. |
| pessimism |
the belief that events will turn out badly; tendency to expect the worst. |
| rampant |
unrestrained or uncontrollable; unbridled. |
| restive |
unable to remain at rest; impatient or ill at ease, especially under restraint. |
| tractable |
easy to manage or guide; docile. |
| undercut |
to act so as to lessen the effectiveness or influence of; undermine or thwart. |