| aberration |
a deviation from what is considered normal or right; irregularity. |
| animus |
a feeling or attitude of enmity. |
| cachet |
prestige. |
| debouch |
to advance out of a confined or narrow space such as a canyon into open country. |
| derelict |
failing to fulfill one's responsibilities or obligations; remiss. |
| disheveled |
not neat; messy. |
| garble |
to mix up, distort, or confuse (a message, translation, or the like); cause to be disordered or unintelligible. |
| inchoate |
partially or imperfectly developed. |
| intersperse |
to place or scatter among other things. |
| perilous |
causing or involving great danger; risky; hazardous. |
| peripatetic |
walking or traveling around; going from place to place; itinerant. |
| peroration |
the concluding part of a speech in which there is a summing up of the principal points. |
| remonstrate |
to say in opposition, protest, or objection. |
| stanch1 |
to cause (a liquid, especially blood) to stop flowing. |
| transpose |
to exchange the position or order of (two things). |