| breach |
an act of breaking a law or promise. |
| concoct |
to make by putting together a number of parts or ingredients. |
| conflagration |
a large, damaging fire. |
| elongate |
to make longer; lengthen. |
| financier |
a person skilled in or occupied in financial operations, usually on a large scale. |
| gaffe |
a crude social error; blunder; faux pas. |
| inconsequential |
having no significant effect or result; not important. |
| irony |
a manner of using language so that it conveys a different or opposite meaning to that which is literally expressed in the words themselves. Irony is used in ordinary conversation and also as a literary technique, especially to express criticism or to produce humor or pathos. |
| obtuse |
not keen or quick to notice, feel, or comprehend; dull or insensitive. |
| ostracize |
to exclude or shun, by general agreement of the group imposing the exclusion. |
| posterior |
located behind or toward the back of something. |
| recurrent |
happening again or repeatedly. |
| redouble |
to make twice as great; renew more vigorously; intensify. |
| tempestuous |
characterized by disturbance or commotion; stormy; turbulent. |