| aleatory |
pertaining to or depending on luck, chance, or contingency. |
| alluvium |
sand, soil, gravel, or the like deposited by moving water, as along a river bed. |
| apotheosis |
a perfect or ideal example; epitome. |
| blatant |
completely obvious or undisguised, sometimes offensively so. |
| coeval |
coinciding in time of origin or existence; contemporary. |
| derision |
mockery or ridicule. |
| disheveled |
not neat; messy. |
| extirpate |
to get rid of completely, as if by pulling up the roots; root out. |
| facetious |
not serious; humorous or frivolous. |
| kibbutz |
an Israeli farming settlement whose ownership is shared by those who live and work there. |
| lattice |
a flat framework made with strips of wood or other material. The strips cross each other and have open spaces in between. A lattice is often used as a screen on a porch or in a garden. |
| peroration |
the concluding part of a speech in which there is a summing up of the principal points. |
| putrefaction |
the act or process of rotting or decomposing. |
| reconnoiter |
to go through or over (an area) so as to gain information about it, as for military or engineering purposes. |
| topography |
the shape of the earth's surface across an area or region. The topography of an area includes the size and location of hills and dips in the land. |