| apprehensive |
feeling fearful about future events. |
| askance |
with distrust or suspicion. |
| demarcate |
to set apart or separate, as if with boundaries. |
| desiccate |
to remove the moisture in (food) so as to preserve it. |
| disaffection |
an absence or loss of good will, faith, or loyalty, especially toward a government, principle, or the like. |
| epicure |
a person who has cultivated tastes, as in food or wine; connoisseur. |
| euphoria |
a strong feeling of well-being or elation, sometimes unrealistic or unwarranted, and able to be induced by certain drugs. |
| gamut |
the whole extent or range of anything. |
| imbroglio |
a difficult, confused, or complicated situation, often involving a misunderstanding, disagreement, or quarrel. |
| inadvertent |
not planned or intended; unintentional. |
| meretricious |
appealing or attracting in a cheap, showy, or shallow way. |
| pedagogy |
the act, process, or profession of teaching. |
| spurn |
to reject, refuse, or treat with scorn; disdain; despise. |
| 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. |
| uxorious |
excessively or foolishly devoted to one's wife, and often thereby submissive to her. |