| belabor |
to continue excessive efforts on or excessive discussion of. |
| canard |
a deliberately false story or rumor, usually defamatory to someone. |
| caste |
the status conferred by the class to which one belongs. |
| corollary |
a readily drawn conclusion; deduction or inference. |
| corporeal |
having to do with a physical body; bodily. |
| despoil |
to forcefully take belongings or goods from; plunder. |
| doggerel |
trivial, crudely constructed verse. |
| epigraph |
a pertinent quotation or motto, especially found at the beginning of a literary work or of a chapter. |
| flummox |
(informal) to confuse or puzzle. |
| fungible |
interchangeable. |
| gossamer |
delicately fine, gauzelike, or filmy. |
| shyster |
a person, usually a lawyer, who uses underhanded, unethical methods. |
| tort |
in law, any civil rather than criminal harm or injury that violates the implicit duty of each citizen not to harm others, and for which one may bring a civil suit and collect compensation. |
| travesty |
something so grotesque or inferior as to seem a parody. |
| voluble |
characterized by a steady flow of words; fluent; talkative. |