| adulation |
extreme or excessive praise. |
| bourgeois |
of, related to, or characteristic of the middle class. |
| churl |
a rude or vulgar person. |
| deducible |
able to be concluded or inferred from certain facts or principles. |
| dissuade |
to urge or convince not to do something. |
| fatuous |
smugly foolish or stupid. |
| impregnable1 |
able to withstand any attack, as a fortress. |
| nonconformity |
refusal or failure to adjust one's behavior and actions to accord or comply with societal customs, values, or the like. |
| propound |
to propose or set forth for consideration. |
| rectitude |
moral or ethical propriety; uprightness. |
| refractory |
obstinately disobedient; difficult to control, as a child or animal. |
| soluble |
able to be dissolved. |
| stratify |
to assign categories or create divisions within (a society) according to a hierarchy of social or economic classes. |
| succumb |
to give in or give way to a fatal illness, superior force, overwhelming desire, or the like; yield. |
| unobservable |
not able to be seen; not detectable. |