| adulteration |
the act or process of making worse or impure by adding unnecessary or inferior ingredients. |
| banal |
lacking originality or liveliness; disappointingly ordinary; commonplace; trite. |
| barrage |
a great number of things coming one after another very quickly. |
| bellicose |
easily incited to quarrel or fight; belligerent. |
| bereft |
deprived or stripped of something. |
| debauch |
to lead or seduce into immorality or intemperance; corrupt. |
| Draconian |
(often lower case) harshly cruel or rigorous. |
| epicure |
a person who has cultivated tastes, as in food or wine; connoisseur. |
| fracas |
a noisy disturbance or quarrel. |
| ineptitude |
incompetence; lack of skill. |
| inquest |
a legal investigation, usually involving a jury, especially a coroner's investigation of a suspicious death. |
| maunder |
to speak in an aimless or foolish way; babble. |
| profligate |
totally given over to immoral and shameful pursuits; dissolute. |
| pronate |
to turn or rotate (the hand or forearm) so that the palm of the hand faces down or backwards. |
| stative |
in grammar, of or designating a category of verbs that express state or condition. |