| adulteration |
the act or process of making worse or impure by adding unnecessary or inferior ingredients. |
| delectation |
enjoyment; delight; pleasure. |
| denigrate |
to deny the worth of; sneer at; belittle. |
| Draconian |
(often lower case) harshly cruel or rigorous. |
| equivocal |
having at least two plausible alternative meanings, often intentionally so in order to deceive or avoid commitment; ambiguous. |
| fulminate |
to vehemently denounce or criticize something. |
| imbricate |
overlapping in an even sequence, as roof tiles or fish scales. |
| impinge |
to encroach. |
| meretricious |
appealing or attracting in a cheap, showy, or shallow way. |
| noisome |
offensive or disgusting, especially in smell; foul. |
| oblique |
not direct or straightforward in intent, means, or achievement; indirect or devious. |
| pedagogy |
the act, process, or profession of teaching. |
| sanguine |
having an optimistic temperament or outlook. |
| supine |
lying with the face upward. |
| triage |
a system of determining priority of medical treatment, on the basis of need, chances of survival, and the like, to victims on a battlefield or in a hospital emergency ward. |