| connive |
to join secretly in a plot; conspire. |
| egregious |
remarkably bad; flagrant; glaring. |
| entity |
anything that exists objectively and distinctly, whether nonliving or living; thing or being. |
| ferment |
a state of upset or fast change. |
| fulsome |
offensive, especially because of excessiveness or insincerity. |
| 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. |
| irrevocable |
impossible to take back, undo, or cancel. |
| languish |
to lose strength or energy; weaken. |
| laud |
to praise. |
| matriarch |
a woman who acts as head of a family, tribe, or other group of people. |
| obliterate |
to erase or make unrecognizable by erasing. |
| orifice |
an opening, such as a vent, mouth, or hole, through which something can pass. |
| perfidy |
an act or the practice of conscious, deliberate disloyalty or treachery; breach of faith. |
| satirical |
containing or marked by the use of parody or irony to ridicule or denounce human corruptness or folly. |
| tempestuous |
characterized by disturbance or commotion; stormy; turbulent. |