| adulteration |
the act or process of making worse or impure by adding unnecessary or inferior ingredients. |
| apposite |
fitting; pertinent; appropriate. |
| blandishment |
(often plural) flattering or coaxing remarks or stratagems intended to persuade. |
| constrict |
to pull or squeeze in; make smaller or more narrow; tighten. |
| decedent |
in law, one who has died. |
| desideratum |
something that is needed or wanted. |
| despoil |
to forcefully take belongings or goods from; plunder. |
| emulous |
filled with the desire to equal or surpass. |
| figurehead |
a person whose title sounds important but who has no real power. |
| garble |
to mix up, distort, or confuse (a message, translation, or the like); cause to be disordered or unintelligible. |
| harbinger |
someone or something that signals or foreshadows a later arrival or occurrence; herald; forerunner. |
| misfeasance |
a normally lawful act performed in an unlawful way. |
| pleonasm |
a redundant word, phrase, or expression. |
| supine |
lying with the face upward. |
| uxorial |
of, pertaining to, or befitting a wife. |