| discountenance |
to embarrass or disconcert. |
| divergence |
the act of separating and moving or leading in different directions. |
| epicure |
a person who has cultivated tastes, as in food or wine; connoisseur. |
| equivocal |
having at least two plausible alternative meanings, often intentionally so in order to deceive or avoid commitment; ambiguous. |
| expound |
to discuss or explain in detail (usually followed by "on" or "upon"). |
| guttural |
articulated in the back of the mouth; velar. |
| humanism |
a doctrine or mode of thought that gives highest importance to human dignity, values, potentials, and achievements. |
| hypocrisy |
the practice or an instance of stating or pretending to hold beliefs or principles that one does not actually live by; insincerity. |
| impromptu |
without advance plan or preparation; spontaneously. |
| incursion |
a raid or sudden invasion. |
| indurate |
to make hard in texture; harden. |
| loll |
to hang down loosely; dangle. |
| malfeasance |
an illegal act or wrongdoing, especially by a public official. |
| obscurantism |
a deliberate lack of clarity or directness of expression, as in certain styles of art or literature. |
| stentorian |
extremely loud and powerful. |