| acclivity |
a rising slope. |
| aggregate |
a sum, combination, or composite of separable elements. |
| bereft |
deprived or stripped of something. |
| cavalier |
carefree and offhand; nonchalant. |
| divergence |
the act of separating and moving or leading in different directions. |
| gullible |
believing almost anything; easily tricked. |
| hypocrisy |
the practice or an instance of stating or pretending to hold beliefs or principles that one does not actually live by; insincerity. |
| inchoate |
partially or imperfectly developed. |
| innocuous |
not capable of causing damage; harmless. |
| pastiche |
a work of visual art, music, or literature that consists mostly of materials and techniques borrowed from other works, sometimes done as an exercise to learn the technique of others. |
| peroration |
the concluding part of a speech in which there is a summing up of the principal points. |
| recessional |
a piece of music that accompanies the exit of participants in a program or religious ceremony. |
| Saturnalia |
an occasion of unrestrained revelry. |
| tyro |
one who is beginning to learn a business, trade, sport, or the like; novice; neophyte. |
| unscathed |
not hurt or harmed; completely uninjured. |