| admonish |
to warn or caution. |
| adulterate |
to make worse or impure by adding unnecessary or inferior ingredients. |
| augment |
to make greater in size or amount; increase. |
| bauble |
a showy or gaudy trinket or ornament of little value. |
| colloquial |
characteristic of or suited to informal or familiar conversation or to writing that is imitative of conversational tone. |
| grandiose |
pretentious or pompous. |
| guile |
deceitfulness, treachery, or skillful cunning; wiliness. |
| jollity |
the state or quality of being merry; gaiety. |
| miasma |
a thick, obscuring vapor. |
| monotony |
tiresome lack of variation. |
| poignant |
deeply touching; arousing strong emotion, especially sadness or sympathy; piercing; penetrating. |
| populous |
having a large population. |
| repudiate |
to reject completely as invalid or untrue. |
| spurious |
not genuine, authentic, or valid; false. |
| unregulated |
not subject to rules or constraints. |