| abhorrence |
a feeling of complete loathing, repulsion, or horror. |
| bilk |
to defraud or swindle, especially by avoiding due or promised payment. |
| cavil |
to make petty criticisms or objections; carp (usually followed by "at" or "about"). |
| coroner |
a public officer employed to investigate by inquest any death not thought to have occurred by natural causes. |
| dispensary |
a room in an institution, such as a hospital, in which medical supplies are kept and given out. |
| divest |
to take rights or property away from; dispossess, especially by legal means. |
| eccentricity |
an odd or peculiar behavior, habit, interest, or the like. |
| expeditious |
prompt and efficient. |
| peevish |
irritable or easily annoyed; ill-tempered. |
| posterity |
all generations to come. |
| preempt |
to seize or appropriate ahead of others. |
| prostrate |
to lie or throw (oneself) flat on the ground, especially face down in an act of humility, worship, or the like. |
| sinewy |
of sinew, or sinewlike; strong; tough. |
| vindicate |
to free from an accusation, suspicion, or doubt by indisputable proof. |
| visceral |
stemming from instinct or intuition rather than the intellect. |