| baleful |
threatening harm; full of malice; ominous. |
| condone |
to pardon, disregard, or overlook voluntarily or without condemning. |
| debauch |
to lead or seduce into immorality or intemperance; corrupt. |
| disallow |
to refuse to allow or admit; reject. |
| Draconian |
(often lower case) harshly cruel or rigorous. |
| elide |
to leave out or slur, as a syllable or letter, in pronunciation. |
| eulogy |
a spoken or written tribute, especially to honor a dead person; high praise; formal commendation. |
| harrow |
to go over or break up with a harrow. |
| heterodox |
deviating from an officially approved belief or doctrine, especially in religion. |
| impugn |
to call into question; challenge or try to discredit. |
| malingerer |
one who pretends to be ill or injured, especially in order to avoid work or duty. |
| pastiche |
a work of visual art, music, or literature that consists mostly of materials and techniques borrowed from other works, sometimes done as an exercise to learn the technique of others. |
| peripatetic |
walking or traveling around; going from place to place; itinerant. |
| periphrasis |
an indirect or roundabout way of phrasing something; circumlocution. |
| triage |
a system of determining priority of medical treatment, on the basis of need, chances of survival, and the like, to victims on a battlefield or in a hospital emergency ward. |