| adulteration |
the act or process of making worse or impure by adding unnecessary or inferior ingredients. |
| apprise |
to inform (often followed by "of"). |
| burgeon |
to start to grow; send forth shoots, leaves, buds, or the like (often followed by "out" or "forth"). |
| consummate |
of the highest order or degree. |
| corporeal |
having to do with a physical body; bodily. |
| deify |
to raise to the rank of a god; consider to be a god. |
| demarcate |
to set apart or separate, as if with boundaries. |
| extralegal |
not regulated or permitted by law; outside of legal authority. |
| glut |
a greater supply or amount than is needed. |
| hagiography |
an admiring and uncritical biography of anyone. |
| immiscible |
not able to be mixed or blended. |
| inquest |
a legal investigation, usually involving a jury, especially a coroner's investigation of a suspicious death. |
| malingerer |
one who pretends to be ill or injured, especially in order to avoid work or duty. |
| peroration |
the concluding part of a speech in which there is a summing up of the principal points. |
| symbiosis |
a close association, usually a mutually beneficial relationship, between two dissimilar organisms. |