| adulteration |
the act or process of making worse or impure by adding unnecessary or inferior ingredients. |
| agog |
highly excited and full of anticipation. |
| apprehensive |
feeling fearful about future events. |
| concur |
to share the same opinion; agree. |
| corollary |
a readily drawn conclusion; deduction or inference. |
| denigrate |
to deny the worth of; sneer at; belittle. |
| deracinate |
to pull up by or as if by the roots; uproot; isolate; exile. |
| devolve |
of a duty or the like, to be passed on to someone else. |
| liminal |
of or at the threshold of a physiological or psychological response or change of state. |
| linguistics |
(used with a singular verb) the scientific and historical study of the form and structure of human language. |
| naturalism |
in literature, a method of depicting life that reflects a philosophy of determinism. |
| noisome |
offensive or disgusting, especially in smell; foul. |
| opprobrious |
expressing condemnation or scorn; accusing of shameful behavior. |
| periphrasis |
an indirect or roundabout way of phrasing something; circumlocution. |
| sequester |
to remove into protection and isolation; seclude. |