abhorrence |
a feeling of complete loathing, repulsion, or horror. |
candor |
the quality of openness, honesty, and straightforwardness in expression. |
capricious |
tending to act on impulse; subject to whim; erratic and unpredictable. |
cozen |
to deceive or trick; swindle. |
decorous |
proper or formal with respect to behavior, manners, appearance, or the like. |
evocative |
tending or able to call forth images, memories, feelings, and the like. |
inferiority |
the fact or condition of being lesser in quality, worth, importance, rank, or position. |
leaven |
to produce fermentation in (dough or batter), consequently causing the dough or batter to rise in the process of baking. |
permeable |
of a substance, being such that gas or liquid can penetrate or diffuse through it. |
perspicacity |
keenness of mental perception or grasp; astuteness. |
pillage |
to openly and forcefully seize goods from, as during a war; plunder. |
remit |
to refrain from carrying out; cancel. |
ruminate |
to think at length; meditate. |
secular |
of or concerning the world and material concerns as opposed to religious or spiritual concerns; temporal. |
surmise |
to infer without certain knowledge; suppose; guess. |