| connoisseur |
a person with the experience, expertise, and sense of appreciation to make informed judgments in a fine art or in matters of taste. |
| exemplary |
deserving to be imitated or followed; highly commendable. |
| facile |
acting or working in an easy, effortless manner. |
| flagrant |
exceptionally or glaringly noticeable. |
| gauche |
deficient in manners or other conventions of social behavior; boorish; crude. |
| heretic |
a person who maintains unorthodox religious opinions or beliefs, especially a baptized Roman Catholic who dissents from official church doctrine. |
| impassable |
impossible to go past, through, over, or around. |
| loquacity |
the quality or an instance of talking a great deal or excessively; talkativeness. |
| palatable |
acceptable or pleasing to the sense of taste. |
| persevere |
to continue steadfastly in a task or course of action or hold steadfastly to a belief or commitment, especially when met with opposition or difficulties; persist. |
| refraction |
the bending of rays or waves of light, heat, sound, or the like when passed obliquely from one medium to another with a different rate of transmission. |
| reticent |
reluctant to speak; not given to frequent speech; restrained; shy. |
| ricochet |
to bounce or skip off a surface at an angle; rebound. |
| travail |
strenuous and often painful or exhausting work; toil. |
| vacuous |
characterized by lack of intelligence or serious intent; devoid of ideas or emotion. |