| aberration |
a deviation from what is considered normal or right; irregularity. |
| boudoir |
a woman's private sitting room or bedroom. |
| coalesce |
to grow together or unite to form a single body or organization; unify; fuse. |
| commodious |
comfortably spacious; roomy. |
| demotic |
of or relating to the common people; popular. |
| disencumber |
to remove burdens or hindrances from. |
| engender |
to create or give rise to. |
| glean |
to gather or discover (facts, information, or the like) a little at a time. |
| immiscible |
not able to be mixed or blended. |
| insipid |
having a bland or uninteresting flavor; tasteless. |
| nostrum |
a favorite but unproven scheme or theory, offered as a remedy for social or political problems; panacea. |
| quiescence |
a state of inaction, rest, or stillness; dormancy. |
| sententious |
using or marked by pompous, high-flown moralizing. |
| sere1 |
dried up or withered. |
| somatic |
of or pertaining to the body itself; corporeal. |