| canny |
difficult to fool or take advantage of; shrewd; wary; clever. |
| debauch |
to lead or seduce into immorality or intemperance; corrupt. |
| doggerel |
trivial, crudely constructed verse. |
| forbear |
to keep or abstain from (an action or utterance). |
| gossamer |
delicately fine, gauzelike, or filmy. |
| inculcate |
to cause to accept an idea or value; imbue. |
| incursion |
a raid or sudden invasion. |
| malaise |
a state or condition of feeling generally unwell, mentally depressed, sluggish, or uneasy. |
| oligarchy |
a government or state in which only a relatively few people or members of a family have real power. |
| parvenu |
a person who has suddenly acquired wealth or status, without acquiring the tastes, manners, customs, or the like of his or her new station. |
| prolix |
wordy and boringly long. |
| regicide |
the murderer of a king. |
| requite |
to retaliate for; strike back on account of. |
| sententious |
using or marked by pompous, high-flown moralizing. |
| somatic |
of or pertaining to the body itself; corporeal. |