| abash |
to cause to feel embarrassed, uneasy, or ashamed. |
| apotheosis |
a perfect or ideal example; epitome. |
| assuage |
to make less severe or more bearable; alleviate. |
| chary |
not dispensing freely. |
| demotic |
of or relating to the common people; popular. |
| despoil |
to forcefully take belongings or goods from; plunder. |
| extirpate |
to get rid of completely, as if by pulling up the roots; root out. |
| glabrous |
having no hair or fuzz; bald; smooth. |
| gnomic |
short and pithy, as an aphorism. |
| nostrum |
a favorite but unproven scheme or theory, offered as a remedy for social or political problems; panacea. |
| refulgent |
shining brilliantly; radiant. |
| remonstrate |
to say in opposition, protest, or objection. |
| tort |
in law, any civil rather than criminal harm or injury that violates the implicit duty of each citizen not to harm others, and for which one may bring a civil suit and collect compensation. |
| transpose |
to exchange the position or order of (two things). |
| vitiate |
to harm the quality of; mar; spoil. |