| apogee |
the highest or farthest point. |
| aristocracy |
a class of people who have a high social position because of the family they are born into. Members of the aristocracy are usually richer and have more privileges than other members of society. |
| charlatan |
one who deceitfully claims to possess a particular skill or expertise; fraud; quack. |
| congruity |
the state or fact of being similar in character or degree;correspondence or fit. |
| diminution |
the act, process, or result of decreasing or declining. |
| discontinuous |
interrupted or intermittent; not without pause or break. |
| equivocation |
the act of communicating in ambiguous, shifting, or indecisive terms, often to avoid or deceive. |
| gibberish |
written or spoken words that are unintelligible, needlessly obscure, or without coherent meaning. |
| incendiary |
causing or having the potential to cause a fire. |
| inconsequential |
having no significant effect or result; not important. |
| insolence |
rude or impudent behavior or speech. |
| petulance |
the state or quality of being easily or unreasonably irritated, impatient, or ill tempered. |
| retrograde |
moving or tending to move in a backward direction; retreating. |
| sodden |
drenched with liquid; saturated; soaked. |
| stanza |
a group of related lines in a poem that make up one section within the poem. Stanzas often have a regular meter and rhyme pattern. |