| catharsis |
in psychotherapy, the bringing of repressed thoughts and feelings to consciousness in order to release emotional tension, or the release itself. |
| decorous |
proper or formal with respect to behavior, manners, appearance, or the like. |
| exhume |
to dig out, especially from a grave; disinter. |
| feign |
to pretend or fake; put on a false show of. |
| importune |
to pester with insistent demands or requests. |
| interrelate |
to place in or come into a shared, mutual, or reciprocal relationship. |
| invariable |
not subject to change; consistently the same. |
| iterate |
to say or do again or repeatedly. |
| marauder |
one who raids or invades in order to plunder. |
| pariah |
a despised or socially outcast person. |
| patron |
a regular customer of a shop, restaurant, or some other business. |
| progenitor |
an ancestor or forebear. |
| satirical |
containing or marked by the use of parody or irony to ridicule or denounce human corruptness or folly. |
| turbid |
clouded or murky because of stirred-up particles or sediment; muddy. |
| unexceptionable |
without flaw or fault; beyond objection or criticism. |