| aberration |
a deviation from what is considered normal or right; irregularity. |
| bereft |
deprived or stripped of something. |
| caste |
the status conferred by the class to which one belongs. |
| conjoin |
to combine for a common purpose. |
| effete |
marked by excessive refinement or delicateness of taste. |
| epistemology |
the branch of philosophy dealing with the origin, nature, and limits of human knowledge. |
| epistolary |
established or continued through letters. |
| harbinger |
someone or something that signals or foreshadows a later arrival or occurrence; herald; forerunner. |
| ineluctable |
impossible to be avoided; inescapable. |
| laudatory |
expressing praise. |
| mésalliance |
marriage with someone of lower social standing than oneself. |
| pedantic |
making or characterized by an excessive display of learnedness, or overly insistent on scholarly details and formalities. |
| peroration |
the concluding part of a speech in which there is a summing up of the principal points. |
| Sabbatarian |
one who observes the Sabbath on Saturday, as Jews and certain Christians. |
| unscathed |
not hurt or harmed; completely uninjured. |