| agog |
highly excited and full of anticipation. |
| aleatory |
pertaining to or depending on luck, chance, or contingency. |
| contumely |
contemptuous insolence; rudeness. |
| crass |
lacking in sensitivity or refinement; crude. |
| curmudgeon |
an irritable or ill-tempered person. |
| derision |
mockery or ridicule. |
| ersatz |
serving as a substitute, especially when of inferior quality. |
| hagiography |
an admiring and uncritical biography of anyone. |
| harbinger |
someone or something that signals or foreshadows a later arrival or occurrence; herald; forerunner. |
| hypocrisy |
the practice or an instance of stating or pretending to hold beliefs or principles that one does not actually live by; insincerity. |
| immiscible |
not able to be mixed or blended. |
| inculcate |
to cause to accept an idea or value; imbue. |
| ineptitude |
incompetence; lack of skill. |
| invidious |
tending to arouse feelings of resentment or animosity, especially because of a slight; offensive or discriminatory. |
| mahatma |
(sometimes capitalized) in Buddhism and theosophy, any of a class of persons revered for their wisdom and love of humanity. |