| adulterate |
to make worse or impure by adding unnecessary or inferior ingredients. |
| belated |
too late; tardy. |
| dissertation |
a formal and usually lengthy exposition in speech or writing, especially a detailed report of research by a candidate for a doctoral degree. |
| dissonant |
not in harmony or agreement; discordant. |
| fallacious |
based on unsound logic; in error; illogical. |
| frolicsome |
full of high spirits, gaiety, or merriment; playful. |
| limbo1 |
(often capitalized) in theology, a place neither in heaven nor hell for souls neither saved nor condemned, such as those of unbaptized infants. |
| materialize |
to become fact; be realized. |
| ostracism |
an exclusion or rejection, as from a social group. |
| promulgate |
to explain or give instruction in (a doctrine) in public; advocate. |
| pundit |
an authoritative, or purportedly authoritative, commentator or critic. |
| recast |
to rewrite, reconstruct, or conceive again in a different form. |
| stratum |
a level in a social hierarchy. |
| throe |
(usually plural) any convulsive or anguished struggle, or great exertion. |
| urbane |
refined in manner; polished; elegant. |