| abash |
to cause to feel embarrassed, uneasy, or ashamed. |
| abysmal |
of vast extent; unmeasurable; extreme. |
| appose |
to place next to or side by side; juxtapose. |
| barrage |
a great number of things coming one after another very quickly. |
| coddle |
to simmer in water that is almost at the boiling point. |
| consummate |
of the highest order or degree. |
| conversant |
familiar; acquainted; practiced (usually followed by "with" or "in"). |
| garble |
to mix up, distort, or confuse (a message, translation, or the like); cause to be disordered or unintelligible. |
| indurate |
to make hard in texture; harden. |
| malinger |
to pretend illness or injury, especially in order to be excused from duty or work. |
| munificent |
having or showing great generosity. |
| nonfeasance |
in law, failure to perform a required duty, as by a public official. |
| oligarchy |
a government or state in which only a relatively few people or members of a family have real power. |
| travesty |
something so grotesque or inferior as to seem a parody. |
| triage |
a system of determining priority of medical treatment, on the basis of need, chances of survival, and the like, to victims on a battlefield or in a hospital emergency ward. |