| adulation |
extreme or excessive praise. |
| adulterate |
to make worse or impure by adding unnecessary or inferior ingredients. |
| aesthetic |
having to do with beauty or art, including literature, dance, music, painting, drawing, and sculpture. |
| cadaverous |
of or resembling a corpse; pale and thin or emaciated. |
| cohere |
to lump, hold, or stick together. |
| conflagration |
a large, damaging fire. |
| gentry |
people who come from families of high social standing. |
| plaintive |
showing or expressing sadness or sorrow. |
| quorum |
the number of members that an organization's rules require to attend a meeting in order for voting or other business to take place. |
| reinstate |
to put back into a former position, condition, or state of effectiveness. |
| relegate |
to send or consign to a condition, place, or position of lesser importance or esteem. |
| secretive |
tending to secrecy. |
| solemnize |
to carry out the formalities of performance required by (an occasion). |
| symposium |
a conference or meeting on a single topic, usually involving several speakers. |
| trajectory |
the actual or expected path of a moving object, especially the curve followed by a projectile, missile, or spacecraft in flight. |