| adulteration |
the act or process of making worse or impure by adding unnecessary or inferior ingredients. |
| canard |
a deliberately false story or rumor, usually defamatory to someone. |
| epistemology |
the branch of philosophy dealing with the origin, nature, and limits of human knowledge. |
| inanition |
a state of exhaustion caused by a lack of nourishment. |
| incessant |
never stopping; constant. |
| incursion |
a raid or sudden invasion. |
| indolence |
the tendency to avoid exertion or effort; laziness. |
| 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. |
| lugubrious |
sad or mournful, especially in an exaggerated way; gloomy. |
| mendicant |
living on charity; begging. |
| neologism |
a new word, phrase, or usage. |
| obtrusive |
aggressive and self-assertive, or inclined to be so. |
| saturnine |
gloomy, sullen, or cynical in temperament or appearance. |
| sylph |
a slender, graceful woman or girl. |
| travesty |
something so grotesque or inferior as to seem a parody. |