| alluvium |
sand, soil, gravel, or the like deposited by moving water, as along a river bed. |
| askance |
with distrust or suspicion. |
| baneful |
causing or leading to death, destruction, or ruin; harmful or deadly. |
| belabor |
to continue excessive efforts on or excessive discussion of. |
| coeval |
coinciding in time of origin or existence; contemporary. |
| condone |
to pardon, disregard, or overlook voluntarily or without condemning. |
| deify |
to raise to the rank of a god; consider to be a god. |
| distraught |
mentally or emotionally unbalanced; crazed. |
| impediment |
an obstacle or hindrance. |
| malfeasance |
an illegal act or wrongdoing, especially by a public official. |
| pedagogy |
the act, process, or profession of teaching. |
| picayune |
having little value or significance; small; paltry. |
| reprise |
repetition of a musical phrase or theme in an identical or slightly altered way. |
| Saturnalia |
an occasion of unrestrained revelry. |
| topography |
the shape of the earth's surface across an area or region. The topography of an area includes the size and location of hills and dips in the land. |