| adulterate |
to make worse or impure by adding unnecessary or inferior ingredients. |
| amorphous |
lacking definite form, shape, or character. |
| belligerence |
a very aggressive or hostile attitude; warlike nature. |
| disputatious |
inclined to quarrel or provoke argument. |
| elixir |
a sweetened, aromatic solution of alcohol and water used as a vehicle for medicines. |
| emanate |
to come or send forth; issue or emit. |
| exhaustive |
thorough and all-encompassing. |
| imprecise |
not exact, accurate, or well-defined; vague. |
| inconsequential |
having no significant effect or result; not important. |
| ostentatious |
done or designed with the intention of impressing others and consequently overly showy or grandiose; pretentious. |
| profess |
to claim or state as true. |
| prophetic |
foretelling or revealing the future. |
| reformatory |
a corrective institution for disciplining and re-educating young offenders. |
| stanza |
a group of related lines in a poem that make up one section within the poem. Stanzas often have a regular meter and rhyme pattern. |
| waif |
a child without a home or friends. |