| consternation |
surprise and alarm, leading to panic, deep disappointment, or total confusion. |
| deign |
to consider some act to be appropriate or in keeping with one's dignity; condescend. |
| discountenance |
to embarrass or disconcert. |
| effrontery |
shameless impudence; insolence. |
| etiolate |
to weaken, especially through deprivation of normal development. |
| gullible |
believing almost anything; easily tricked. |
| heinous |
extremely wicked or despicable; atrocious. |
| ingenuous |
having or showing simplicity and lack of sophistication; artless. |
| intelligentsia |
the elite class of highly learned people within a society, or those who consider themselves part of such a class. |
| jeremiad |
a long complaint about life or one's situation; lamentation. |
| jubilate |
to feel joyful; rejoice; exult. |
| omnibus |
concerning or including a large collection of things. |
| shunt |
to turn or move aside or out of the way; divert. |
| somatic |
of or pertaining to the body itself; corporeal. |
| transpose |
to exchange the position or order of (two things). |