| abysmal |
of vast extent; unmeasurable; extreme. |
| adulteration |
the act or process of making worse or impure by adding unnecessary or inferior ingredients. |
| advert |
to direct the attention by comment or remark. |
| askance |
with distrust or suspicion. |
| bereft |
deprived or stripped of something. |
| decedent |
in law, one who has died. |
| garrulous |
given to talking excessively. |
| incessant |
never stopping; constant. |
| indurate |
to make hard in texture; harden. |
| intersperse |
to place or scatter among other things. |
| maladroit |
not skillful; clumsy; tactless. |
| parsimonious |
excessively frugal; stingy. |
| 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. |
| sanctimony |
a pretense of righteousness or piety; feigned devotion or holiness. |
| travesty |
something so grotesque or inferior as to seem a parody. |