| adulation |
extreme or excessive praise. |
| ambivalent |
of feelings and emotions, conflicting; pulling in opposite directions. |
| compassion |
a feeling of sharing another's suffering that leads to a desire to help. |
| culinary |
of, concerning, or used for cooking. |
| delimit |
to define or mark the boundaries of; demarcate. |
| emulate |
to try to be the same as or better than (another person), especially by imitating. |
| excoriate |
to denounce or criticize severely. |
| generalize |
to come to a broad idea or rule about something after considering particular facts. |
| impecunious |
lacking funds; penniless. |
| intuition |
the power to know or understand something without thinking it through in a logical way. |
| plethora |
an amount that is more than enough; overabundance. |
| prudery |
the state, quality, or characteristic of being overly concerned with modest or proper conduct, speech, dress, or the like. |
| sequel |
what follows afterwards, such as the next event in a series, especially as it arises from previous events. |
| tantamount |
equal to or the same as; equivalent. |
| uninformative |
conveying little or no knowledge or understanding. |