| baneful |
causing or leading to death, destruction, or ruin; harmful or deadly. |
| effrontery |
shameless impudence; insolence. |
| flagitious |
viciously or shamefully wicked; infamous. |
| glabrous |
having no hair or fuzz; bald; smooth. |
| indomitable |
too strong to be subdued or discouraged; unconquerable. |
| irrefragable |
impossible to refute or dispute; undeniable. |
| kibbutz |
an Israeli farming settlement whose ownership is shared by those who live and work there. |
| linguistics |
(used with a singular verb) the scientific and historical study of the form and structure of human language. |
| macrocosm |
a large unit or entity that represents on a large scale one of its smaller components. |
| malaise |
a state or condition of feeling generally unwell, mentally depressed, sluggish, or uneasy. |
| malingerer |
one who pretends to be ill or injured, especially in order to avoid work or duty. |
| panegyric |
a formal speech or piece of writing devoted to publicly praising a person or thing. |
| sententious |
using or marked by pompous, high-flown moralizing. |
| solipsism |
the self-centered habit of interpreting and judging all things exclusively according to one's own concepts of meaning and value. |
| tort |
in law, any civil rather than criminal harm or injury that violates the implicit duty of each citizen not to harm others, and for which one may bring a civil suit and collect compensation. |