| arrant |
complete; unmitigated; downright. |
| avow |
to assert or affirm. |
| coeval |
coinciding in time of origin or existence; contemporary. |
| debauch |
to lead or seduce into immorality or intemperance; corrupt. |
| disinter |
to dig up or remove from a place of burial; exhume. |
| effrontery |
shameless impudence; insolence. |
| inadvertent |
not planned or intended; unintentional. |
| jeremiad |
a long complaint about life or one's situation; lamentation. |
| laudatory |
expressing praise. |
| modus operandi |
a method of accomplishing something; way of working. |
| penury |
severe poverty; pennilessness. |
| pleonasm |
a redundant word, phrase, or expression. |
| refulgent |
shining brilliantly; radiant. |
| reprisal |
injury inflicted in retaliation for injury received, as in war; revenge. |
| vitiate |
to harm the quality of; mar; spoil. |