| apropos |
appropriate; relevant; opportune. |
| condign |
well-deserved or fitting, especially of punishment or reprimand. |
| denigrate |
to deny the worth of; sneer at; belittle. |
| engender |
to create or give rise to. |
| festoon |
a decorative chain or strip of ribbons, flowers, leaves, or the like, suspended at the ends and hung in a curve. |
| flak |
(informal) irritating opposition, criticism, or dissent. |
| heinous |
extremely wicked or despicable; atrocious. |
| impediment |
an obstacle or hindrance. |
| liminal |
of or at the threshold of a physiological or psychological response or change of state. |
| pastiche |
a work of visual art, music, or literature that consists mostly of materials and techniques borrowed from other works, sometimes done as an exercise to learn the technique of others. |
| picayune |
having little value or significance; small; paltry. |
| raffish |
carelessly unconventional or disreputable, sometimes appealingly so. |
| recurve |
to bend or curve back or backward, as the ends of certain shooting bows. |
| 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. |