| apposite |
fitting; pertinent; appropriate. |
| bellicose |
easily incited to quarrel or fight; belligerent. |
| disheveled |
not neat; messy. |
| expiation |
the act or the means of making amends, as for a sin or crime. |
| figurehead |
a person whose title sounds important but who has no real power. |
| jeremiad |
a long complaint about life or one's situation; lamentation. |
| mélange |
a mixture, usually of very dissimilar elements. |
| pedagogy |
the act, process, or profession of teaching. |
| pungency |
sharpness or bite in taste or smell. |
| putrefaction |
the act or process of rotting or decomposing. |
| rebarbative |
tending to irritate or repel; forbidding or unattractive. |
| repose2 |
to put or place (confidence, hope, or the like) in someone or something. |
| scabrous |
characterized by a rough or scaly surface, as the leaf of a plant. |
| uxorial |
of, pertaining to, or befitting a wife. |
| welter |
to roll about or wallow, as in mud or the open sea. |