| adulteration |
the act or process of making worse or impure by adding unnecessary or inferior ingredients. |
| baneful |
causing or leading to death, destruction, or ruin; harmful or deadly. |
| despoil |
to forcefully take belongings or goods from; plunder. |
| doggerel |
trivial, crudely constructed verse. |
| effluvium |
an outflow of usually invisible, foul-smelling vapor or gas. |
| expostulate |
to argue earnestly with someone, usually against an intended action; remonstrate. |
| idiosyncrasy |
a characteristic of temperament, habit, or physical structure particular to a given individual or group; peculiarity. |
| libertine |
acting without restraint; dissolute; amoral. |
| louche |
of questionable decency, morality, or taste; shady; disreputable. |
| quadrant |
any of the four parts that result when an area is divided by two lines, real or imaginary, that intersect each other at right angles. |
| repose2 |
to put or place (confidence, hope, or the like) in someone or something. |
| risible |
provoking laughter; laughable or funny. |
| salacious |
excited by lust; lecherous. |
| Saturnalia |
an occasion of unrestrained revelry. |
| stipple |
a method of painting, drawing, or engraving by applying small points, dots, or dabs to a surface. |