| augury |
the art or practice or an instance of predicting the future or obtaining hidden knowledge by interpreting omens. |
| despoil |
to forcefully take belongings or goods from; plunder. |
| discountenance |
to embarrass or disconcert. |
| disquisition |
a formal, often lengthy, oral or written discussion of a subject. |
| electuary |
a drug mixed with honey, syrup, or the like to form a paste to be smeared on the teeth or gums of a sick animal. |
| frangible |
easy to break; breakable; fragile. |
| hypocrisy |
the practice or an instance of stating or pretending to hold beliefs or principles that one does not actually live by; insincerity. |
| indurate |
to make hard in texture; harden. |
| ineptitude |
incompetence; lack of skill. |
| maladroit |
not skillful; clumsy; tactless. |
| modus operandi |
a method of accomplishing something; way of working. |
| penury |
severe poverty; pennilessness. |
| Saturnalia |
an occasion of unrestrained revelry. |
| scabrous |
characterized by a rough or scaly surface, as the leaf of a plant. |
| uxorious |
excessively or foolishly devoted to one's wife, and often thereby submissive to her. |