| abash |
to cause to feel embarrassed, uneasy, or ashamed. |
| apocryphal |
of dubious authorship or authority. |
| asperity |
harshness or roughness, especially of tone or manner. |
| baneful |
causing or leading to death, destruction, or ruin; harmful or deadly. |
| caparison |
decorative trappings to cover a horse's saddle or harness. |
| comity |
mutual courtesy and respectful treatment among people or nations. |
| determinism |
the belief or teaching that every effect, including human thoughts and actions, is completely and predictably brought about by preceding causes and that, therefore, free will does not exist. |
| effluvium |
an outflow of usually invisible, foul-smelling vapor or gas. |
| guru |
in a cult or religious movement, a spiritual guide or leader, sometimes believed to be divine. |
| inculcate |
to cause to accept an idea or value; imbue. |
| kismet |
destiny, fortune, or fate. |
| macerate |
to soften (food or the like) by soaking, as in digestion. |
| rebarbative |
tending to irritate or repel; forbidding or unattractive. |
| recrudesce |
to become active again or break out anew, as a disease or harmful condition. |
| stickler |
one who must observe or conform to something (usually followed by "for"). |