| adulteration |
the act or process of making worse or impure by adding unnecessary or inferior ingredients. |
| astringent |
a substance or drug that contracts body tissue and slows discharge or secretion. |
| baleful |
threatening harm; full of malice; ominous. |
| baneful |
causing or leading to death, destruction, or ruin; harmful or deadly. |
| coddle |
to simmer in water that is almost at the boiling point. |
| deign |
to consider some act to be appropriate or in keeping with one's dignity; condescend. |
| denigrate |
to deny the worth of; sneer at; belittle. |
| deposition |
a sworn statement, usually in writing, for use as testimony by an absent witness in a court of law. |
| flagitious |
viciously or shamefully wicked; infamous. |
| inchoate |
partially or imperfectly developed. |
| insouciant |
having no cares or anxieties; light-hearted; carefree. |
| libertine |
acting without restraint; dissolute; amoral. |
| lugubrious |
sad or mournful, especially in an exaggerated way; gloomy. |
| quotidian |
happening every day or once a day. |
| unadulterated |
unmixed with or undiluted by additives or extraneous elements; pure; complete. |