| assuage |
to make less severe or more bearable; alleviate. |
| brash |
rudely self-assertive; bold; impudent. |
| cachet |
prestige. |
| conjoin |
to combine for a common purpose. |
| deify |
to raise to the rank of a god; consider to be a god. |
| derision |
mockery or ridicule. |
| discomfit |
to upset or confuse. |
| doggerel |
trivial, crudely constructed verse. |
| exceptionable |
likely to be objected to; objectionable. |
| highbrow |
one who has or pretends to have highly sophisticated intellectual and cultural interests and tastes (often used disparagingly). |
| nonfeasance |
in law, failure to perform a required duty, as by a public official. |
| obviate |
to prevent or eliminate in advance; render unnecessary or irrelevant. |
| penury |
severe poverty; pennilessness. |
| shyster |
a person, usually a lawyer, who uses underhanded, unethical methods. |
| stative |
in grammar, of or designating a category of verbs that express state or condition. |