| adulterate |
to make worse or impure by adding unnecessary or inferior ingredients. |
| castigation |
the act of rebuking, severely criticizing, or punishing, especially in a public forum. |
| cohesion |
the state or quality of having parts that are logically ordered or connected into a whole. |
| egoism |
the tendency to evaluate everything in relation to one's own interests; self-centeredness. |
| elongate |
to make longer; lengthen. |
| epoch |
an important period in human history. |
| impassioned |
full of strong emotion. |
| inescapable |
unable to be avoided or ignored. |
| inestimable |
of value or worth that cannot be measured; invaluable. |
| onslaught |
a forceful, often sudden, offensive maneuver; attack. |
| opalescent |
exhibiting a spectrum of colors or changing colors; iridescent. |
| orifice |
an opening, such as a vent, mouth, or hole, through which something can pass. |
| presentiment |
an intuition or sense of something about to happen; foreboding. |
| quiescent |
in a state of inaction or rest; dormant. |
| timely |
happening at just the right moment. |