| adulteration |
the act or process of making worse or impure by adding unnecessary or inferior ingredients. |
| aleatory |
pertaining to or depending on luck, chance, or contingency. |
| attenuate |
to cause to be thin, rarefied, or fine. |
| equivocal |
having at least two plausible alternative meanings, often intentionally so in order to deceive or avoid commitment; ambiguous. |
| feckless |
weak or incompetent; ineffective. |
| garble |
to mix up, distort, or confuse (a message, translation, or the like); cause to be disordered or unintelligible. |
| kibbutz |
an Israeli farming settlement whose ownership is shared by those who live and work there. |
| knurled |
having small ridges. |
| louche |
of questionable decency, morality, or taste; shady; disreputable. |
| raffish |
carelessly unconventional or disreputable, sometimes appealingly so. |
| sepsis |
infection, especially by pus-forming bacteria in the blood or tissues. |
| sere1 |
dried up or withered. |
| solipsism |
the self-centered habit of interpreting and judging all things exclusively according to one's own concepts of meaning and value. |
| supine |
lying with the face upward. |
| woebegone |
displaying or full of distress. |