| acrid |
bitter in taste or smell; sharply irritating. |
| annals |
a chronological record of events, usually year by year. |
| designate |
to choose for a particular job or purpose. |
| differentiate |
to distinguish between or among. |
| dysfunctional |
of a relationship, family, or social group, not working normally or in a way beneficial to all. |
| efficacy |
the ability to produce desired results; effectiveness. |
| feign |
to pretend or fake; put on a false show of. |
| generalize |
to come to a broad idea or rule about something after considering particular facts. |
| interlude |
a pause, space, or event that intervenes; interval. |
| macabre |
of, pertaining to, depicting, or evoking death or the horrors of death; gruesome; ghastly. |
| perfidy |
an act or the practice of conscious, deliberate disloyalty or treachery; breach of faith. |
| proliferate |
to spread or increase quickly. |
| respective |
of or belonging to each one. |
| rudiment |
(often plural) something in an initial, imperfect, or undeveloped form. |
| shoddy |
of low quality; poorly made or carried out. |