| accountability |
the state or quality of being responsible for providing an explanation or justification. |
| affluence |
material wealth. |
| bombast |
boastful, pompous, or otherwise overblown utterances. |
| contraband |
goods banned by law from being imported or exported. |
| foretaste |
a partial, advance experience or realization of something that will come or happen in the future. |
| hiatus |
a gap or break in activity, time, or space; interruption. |
| impassioned |
full of strong emotion. |
| mutation |
a sudden, apparently abnormal change or alteration in a genetically determined structure, as opposed to gradual evolutionary change. |
| promulgate |
to explain or give instruction in (a doctrine) in public; advocate. |
| rambunctious |
wildly or uncontrollably active; difficult to control; boisterous. |
| rudimentary |
of or pertaining to the basic or first principles; elementary. |
| somnolent |
sleepy or drowsy. |
| unpalatable |
not acceptable or pleasing to the sense of taste. |
| unvaried |
marked by a lack of diversity; never changing. |
| wrest |
to take away with, or as if with, a twist or pull. |