arraign |
to bring before a court of law to respond to a charge or indictment. |
dehumanize |
to deprive of individuality, spirit, or other human qualities; render routine or mechanical. |
delimit |
to define or mark the boundaries of; demarcate. |
fragmentary |
consisting of fragments; incomplete or disconnected. |
habituate |
to make accustomed to. |
inopportune |
occurring at an undesirable or unreasonable time. |
orientation |
the act or process of preparing oneself or others for a new situation. |
quaff |
to drink, especially deeply and with obvious enjoyment. |
rectitude |
moral or ethical propriety; uprightness. |
reformatory |
a corrective institution for disciplining and re-educating young offenders. |
stanza |
a group of related lines in a poem that make up one section within the poem. Stanzas often have a regular meter and rhyme pattern. |
subtlety |
the quality or condition of being difficult to detect or define. |
tirade |
a long, forceful, or angry speech, often critical or denunciatory in nature; harangue. |
unctuous |
excessively or falsely earnest or amiable. |
viscous |
having an adhesive, gluey consistency that resists flow. |