| adulteration |
the act or process of making worse or impure by adding unnecessary or inferior ingredients. |
| advert |
to direct the attention by comment or remark. |
| appose |
to place next to or side by side; juxtapose. |
| argot |
the vocabulary or jargon characteristic of a specific group or class, especially of criminals. |
| canard |
a deliberately false story or rumor, usually defamatory to someone. |
| determinism |
the belief or teaching that every effect, including human thoughts and actions, is completely and predictably brought about by preceding causes and that, therefore, free will does not exist. |
| disencumber |
to remove burdens or hindrances from. |
| foible |
a minor flaw or weakness in personality, character, or behavior. |
| impinge |
to encroach. |
| indurate |
to make hard in texture; harden. |
| intelligentsia |
the elite class of highly learned people within a society, or those who consider themselves part of such a class. |
| macrocosm |
a large unit or entity that represents on a large scale one of its smaller components. |
| regicide |
the murderer of a king. |
| solipsism |
the self-centered habit of interpreting and judging all things exclusively according to one's own concepts of meaning and value. |
| unabashed |
not feeling or showing embarrassment, uneasiness, or shame. |