| adulteration |
the act or process of making worse or impure by adding unnecessary or inferior ingredients. |
| colloquialism |
a word or phrase typically used in conversational, informal, or regional speech or writing, hence sometimes considered inappropriate in formal writing. |
| devolve |
of a duty or the like, to be passed on to someone else. |
| disaffection |
an absence or loss of good will, faith, or loyalty, especially toward a government, principle, or the like. |
| disheveled |
not neat; messy. |
| eulogy |
a spoken or written tribute, especially to honor a dead person; high praise; formal commendation. |
| liminal |
of or at the threshold of a physiological or psychological response or change of state. |
| maunder |
to speak in an aimless or foolish way; babble. |
| mendicant |
living on charity; begging. |
| meretricious |
appealing or attracting in a cheap, showy, or shallow way. |
| pneumatic |
of, using, or concerning air or other gases. |
| precursory |
coming before and serving to indicate what will follow; premonitory. |
| pronate |
to turn or rotate (the hand or forearm) so that the palm of the hand faces down or backwards. |
| rodomontade |
puffed-up boasting or bravado. |
| symbiosis |
a close association, usually a mutually beneficial relationship, between two dissimilar organisms. |