| assail |
to attack with vigor or violence; assault. |
| coeval |
coinciding in time of origin or existence; contemporary. |
| demotic |
of or relating to the common people; popular. |
| desideratum |
something that is needed or wanted. |
| devolve |
of a duty or the like, to be passed on to someone else. |
| disabuse |
to free (a person) from misconception or deception; set straight. |
| discountenance |
to embarrass or disconcert. |
| erratic |
not expected or predicted; not regular. |
| homily |
any discourse offering moral advice or admonitions. |
| inanition |
a state of exhaustion caused by a lack of nourishment. |
| incredulous |
not able to believe something. |
| indurate |
to make hard in texture; harden. |
| ineluctable |
impossible to be avoided; inescapable. |
| parvenu |
a person who has suddenly acquired wealth or status, without acquiring the tastes, manners, customs, or the like of his or her new station. |
| Saturnalia |
an occasion of unrestrained revelry. |