| arrant |
complete; unmitigated; downright. |
| crass |
lacking in sensitivity or refinement; crude. |
| deracinate |
to pull up by or as if by the roots; uproot; isolate; exile. |
| impugn |
to call into question; challenge or try to discredit. |
| inflection |
change that occurs in the form of words to show a grammatical characteristic such as the tense of a verb, the number of a noun, or the degree of an adjective or adverb. |
| invidious |
tending to arouse feelings of resentment or animosity, especially because of a slight; offensive or discriminatory. |
| kibbutz |
an Israeli farming settlement whose ownership is shared by those who live and work there. |
| neophyte |
a beginner or novice at any activity. |
| panegyric |
a formal speech or piece of writing devoted to publicly praising a person or thing. |
| peripatetic |
walking or traveling around; going from place to place; itinerant. |
| requite |
to retaliate for; strike back on account of. |
| schadenfreude |
(often capitalized) pleasure derived from the misfortune of others. |
| sere1 |
dried up or withered. |
| stative |
in grammar, of or designating a category of verbs that express state or condition. |
| topography |
the shape of the earth's surface across an area or region. The topography of an area includes the size and location of hills and dips in the land. |