| belie |
to give a false impression of. |
| deign |
to consider some act to be appropriate or in keeping with one's dignity; condescend. |
| disallow |
to refuse to allow or admit; reject. |
| distraught |
mentally or emotionally unbalanced; crazed. |
| feckless |
weak or incompetent; ineffective. |
| goad |
something that spurs a person to action; stimulus. |
| homily |
any discourse offering moral advice or admonitions. |
| inflection |
change that occurs in the form of words to show a grammatical characteristic such as the tense of a verb, the number of a noun, or the degree of an adjective or adverb. |
| inquest |
a legal investigation, usually involving a jury, especially a coroner's investigation of a suspicious death. |
| interdict |
to deter or impede by the steady use of firepower. |
| meretricious |
appealing or attracting in a cheap, showy, or shallow way. |
| peroration |
the concluding part of a speech in which there is a summing up of the principal points. |
| pretentious |
assuming or marked by an air of importance or superiority that is unwarranted. |
| refulgent |
shining brilliantly; radiant. |
| travesty |
something so grotesque or inferior as to seem a parody. |