| acrimonious |
filled with bitterness or rancor. |
| chauvinist |
one who has a biased belief in the superiority of one's own sex over the other. |
| conformist |
one who tends to act in accordance or compliance with established standards or norms. |
| designate |
to choose for a particular job or purpose. |
| discretion |
the freedom or authority to use one's own judgment. |
| erudition |
a high level of scholarly knowledge; learnedness. |
| experimentation |
the act, process, or practice of running tests or trials. |
| gauche |
deficient in manners or other conventions of social behavior; boorish; crude. |
| gibberish |
written or spoken words that are unintelligible, needlessly obscure, or without coherent meaning. |
| humbug |
something without substance or meaning, such as an idea or argument; nonsense. |
| hydraulic |
of, concerning, operated by, or moved by water or another liquid under pressure. |
| inept |
lacking skill or aptitude; incompetent. |
| marauder |
one who raids or invades in order to plunder. |
| patina |
a greenish, brownish, or reddish crust or film produced by oxidation on the surface of old metals such as bronze and copper. |
| stanza |
a group of related lines in a poem that make up one section within the poem. Stanzas often have a regular meter and rhyme pattern. |