| baleful |
threatening harm; full of malice; ominous. |
| boorish |
rude; ill-mannered; crude. |
| cession |
the act of formally giving up or signing over, as a territory; ceding. |
| disallow |
to refuse to allow or admit; reject. |
| equipoise |
a state of balance or equal weight, importance, or the like; equilibrium. |
| flagitious |
viciously or shamefully wicked; infamous. |
| hackneyed |
made trite or commonplace by overuse, as an expression or phrase. |
| malfeasance |
an illegal act or wrongdoing, especially by a public official. |
| precursory |
coming before and serving to indicate what will follow; premonitory. |
| recessional |
a piece of music that accompanies the exit of participants in a program or religious ceremony. |
| recrudesce |
to become active again or break out anew, as a disease or harmful condition. |
| reprisal |
injury inflicted in retaliation for injury received, as in war; revenge. |
| spurn |
to reject, refuse, or treat with scorn; disdain; despise. |
| tamp |
to compress and pack tightly by repeated light taps. |
| vitiate |
to harm the quality of; mar; spoil. |