| aesthetic |
having to do with beauty or art, including literature, dance, music, painting, drawing, and sculpture. |
| anathema |
something or someone despised or cursed. |
| dirge |
a song or hymn for a funeral or memorial for the dead. |
| dote |
to have or show too much love or affection (usually followed by "on" or "upon"). |
| evasion |
the act or an instance of escaping, avoiding, or failing to perform something. |
| incorrigible |
incapable of being controlled or influenced for the better. |
| incriminate |
to show involvement in a crime. |
| philosophy |
the study of the nature of life, truth, knowledge, and other important human matters, |
| pliable |
easily bent; flexible; malleable. |
| proletariat |
the working class, especially those who lack capital and must sell their usually unskilled labor in order to survive. |
| prosaic |
straightforward and plain; unimaginative; dull. |
| qualm |
a feeling of guilt or doubt. |
| reticent |
reluctant to speak; not given to frequent speech; restrained; shy. |
| rift |
a break in social relations, because of a difference of opinion, quarrel, or the like; breach. |
| theorem |
a proposition or idea that can be proven by other formulas or propositions in mathematics, or deduced from accepted premises or assumptions in logic. |