| aberration |
a deviation from what is considered normal or right; irregularity. |
| abut |
to adjoin or press against; be next to; border on. |
| appose |
to place next to or side by side; juxtapose. |
| apprise |
to inform (often followed by "of"). |
| burgeon |
to start to grow; send forth shoots, leaves, buds, or the like (often followed by "out" or "forth"). |
| cachet |
prestige. |
| deracinate |
to pull up by or as if by the roots; uproot; isolate; exile. |
| distraught |
mentally or emotionally unbalanced; crazed. |
| doggerel |
trivial, crudely constructed verse. |
| epicure |
a person who has cultivated tastes, as in food or wine; connoisseur. |
| flout |
to show scorn or contempt for, especially by openly or deliberately disobeying. |
| frangible |
easy to break; breakable; fragile. |
| neophyte |
a beginner or novice at any activity. |
| pastiche |
a work of visual art, music, or literature that consists mostly of materials and techniques borrowed from other works, sometimes done as an exercise to learn the technique of others. |
| sententious |
using or marked by pompous, high-flown moralizing. |