| adulterate |
to make worse or impure by adding unnecessary or inferior ingredients. |
| boor |
a rough-mannered or insensitive person. |
| catharsis |
in psychotherapy, the bringing of repressed thoughts and feelings to consciousness in order to release emotional tension, or the release itself. |
| concurrent |
existing or occurring at the same time. |
| connotation |
a secondary meaning or implication of a word or expression, in addition to its primary meaning. |
| insular |
closed to new ideas; narrow-minded. |
| lewd |
characterized by vulgarity or offensively explicit sexual references; bawdy. |
| opulence |
the condition of being luxuriant and costly. |
| patriarch |
a man who is the leader of a family or tribe. |
| provident |
showing wisdom and foresight in planning for the future. |
| repulsion |
extreme distaste, disgust, or aversion. |
| verbose |
using or characterized by many or superfluous words; wordy. |
| vie |
to compete with another for victory, superiority, or the like (usually followed by "for"). |
| voracious |
consuming large quantities of food with greed or great desire; ravenous. |
| wan |
very pale. |