| alfresco |
in the open air; outdoors. |
| asperity |
harshness or roughness, especially of tone or manner. |
| commodious |
comfortably spacious; roomy. |
| disabuse |
to free (a person) from misconception or deception; set straight. |
| eidetic |
pertaining to or designating the ability to recall images in almost perfect detail. |
| erudite |
having or showing a high level of scholarly knowledge; learned. |
| fracas |
a noisy disturbance or quarrel. |
| ineluctable |
impossible to be avoided; inescapable. |
| libertine |
acting without restraint; dissolute; amoral. |
| loll |
to hang down loosely; dangle. |
| malingerer |
one who pretends to be ill or injured, especially in order to avoid work or duty. |
| nostrum |
a favorite but unproven scheme or theory, offered as a remedy for social or political problems; panacea. |
| oligarchy |
a government or state in which only a relatively few people or members of a family have real power. |
| recidivism |
chronic return to bad habits, especially criminal relapse. |
| shunt |
to turn or move aside or out of the way; divert. |