| breach |
an act of breaking a law or promise. |
| caustic |
bitingly critical. |
| decelerate |
to lower the speed of; decrease in velocity; slow down. |
| denunciation |
the act of verbally condemning or attacking. |
| extant |
still in existence; current; not extinct, destroyed, or lost. |
| heretic |
a person who maintains unorthodox religious opinions or beliefs, especially a baptized Roman Catholic who dissents from official church doctrine. |
| rabble1 |
a confused and uncontrolled crowd; disorderly mob. |
| refraction |
the bending of rays or waves of light, heat, sound, or the like when passed obliquely from one medium to another with a different rate of transmission. |
| revelry |
noisy merrymaking. |
| schematic |
of, pertaining to, or formed like an outline or diagram. |
| stipend |
any periodic payment of money, such as a salary or allowance. |
| sublime |
exalted or noble; lofty. |
| succumb |
to give in or give way to a fatal illness, superior force, overwhelming desire, or the like; yield. |
| winnow |
to sift through, or separate out the desired or worthwhile from the undesired or worthless part of, as by critical analysis. |
| witticism |
a clever, often perceptive joke, insult, or saying. |