| arrant |
complete; unmitigated; downright. |
| boorish |
rude; ill-mannered; crude. |
| derision |
mockery or ridicule. |
| disheveled |
not neat; messy. |
| ensconce |
to position (oneself) firmly or comfortably. |
| figurehead |
a person whose title sounds important but who has no real power. |
| fledge |
to grow flight feathers. |
| garble |
to mix up, distort, or confuse (a message, translation, or the like); cause to be disordered or unintelligible. |
| indurate |
to make hard in texture; harden. |
| innocuous |
not capable of causing damage; harmless. |
| parsimonious |
excessively frugal; stingy. |
| peroration |
the concluding part of a speech in which there is a summing up of the principal points. |
| pinchbeck |
false, sham, or counterfeit. |
| refulgent |
shining brilliantly; radiant. |
| risible |
provoking laughter; laughable or funny. |