| banter |
joking, clever conversation. |
| beneficent |
tending to do good; kindly; charitable. |
| contend |
to struggle; fight against difficulties or opposition. |
| cosmic |
of or relating to the universe. |
| dross |
anything that is worthless or useless; rubbish. |
| egoism |
the tendency to evaluate everything in relation to one's own interests; self-centeredness. |
| embalm |
to treat (a corpse) with preservatives before burial. |
| excoriate |
to denounce or criticize severely. |
| gouge |
a cut or hole made with something sharp. |
| insubordinate |
unwilling to respect or submit to authority; disobedient. |
| momentous |
very important. |
| pernicious |
having a very harmful or fatal effect; injurious, deadly, or destructive. |
| preposterous |
totally unlikely, unbelievable, or senseless; absurd. |
| scapegoat |
one made to bear the blame for the wrongs of others. |
| syncopate |
in music, to make (a rhythm) more complex as by accenting beats that are not normally accented or employing rests where accented beats would be expected. |