| adulation |
extreme or excessive praise. |
| catharsis |
in psychotherapy, the bringing of repressed thoughts and feelings to consciousness in order to release emotional tension, or the release itself. |
| exhort |
to advise, urge, or incite with great seriousness. |
| ferocity |
the quality or state of being cruelly savage or fierce. |
| frugality |
prudent or sparing use of resources, especially money. |
| grandiloquence |
speech that is pretentious, pompous, or excessively mannered. |
| gratis |
without charging money; freely. |
| malediction |
the expression of a wish that evil or harm come to someone; curse. |
| monotone |
speech with little or no change in tone. |
| nondescript |
having no individual distinctiveness; lacking in notable features. |
| sully |
to make dirty or tarnished. |
| transgression |
the act or an instance of violating a law, religious commandment, or the like; sin; crime; trespass. |
| unvaried |
marked by a lack of diversity; never changing. |
| unworldly |
lacking sophistication; naive; provincial. |
| voracious |
consuming large quantities of food with greed or great desire; ravenous. |