| adulteration |
the act or process of making worse or impure by adding unnecessary or inferior ingredients. |
| affidavit |
a written statement that is sworn in the presence of an authorized official to be true, used as legal evidence. |
| apposite |
fitting; pertinent; appropriate. |
| asperity |
harshness or roughness, especially of tone or manner. |
| belabor |
to continue excessive efforts on or excessive discussion of. |
| bilge |
the rounded part of a ship's hull between the bottom and the sides. |
| caste |
the status conferred by the class to which one belongs. |
| deify |
to raise to the rank of a god; consider to be a god. |
| eidetic |
pertaining to or designating the ability to recall images in almost perfect detail. |
| flout |
to show scorn or contempt for, especially by openly or deliberately disobeying. |
| forbear |
to keep or abstain from (an action or utterance). |
| inflection |
change that occurs in the form of words to show a grammatical characteristic such as the tense of a verb, the number of a noun, or the degree of an adjective or adverb. |
| lugubrious |
sad or mournful, especially in an exaggerated way; gloomy. |
| reconnoiter |
to go through or over (an area) so as to gain information about it, as for military or engineering purposes. |
| vitiate |
to harm the quality of; mar; spoil. |