| askance |
with distrust or suspicion. |
| astringent |
a substance or drug that contracts body tissue and slows discharge or secretion. |
| berate |
to reproach or scold severely. |
| devolve |
of a duty or the like, to be passed on to someone else. |
| disheveled |
not neat; messy. |
| diurnal |
occurring or active during, or belonging to, the daytime rather than nighttime. |
| engender |
to create or give rise to. |
| exegesis |
a critical explanation or interpretive analysis, especially of religious texts. |
| glabrous |
having no hair or fuzz; bald; smooth. |
| highbrow |
one who has or pretends to have highly sophisticated intellectual and cultural interests and tastes (often used disparagingly). |
| kibbutz |
an Israeli farming settlement whose ownership is shared by those who live and work there. |
| penury |
severe poverty; pennilessness. |
| profligate |
totally given over to immoral and shameful pursuits; dissolute. |
| pronate |
to turn or rotate (the hand or forearm) so that the palm of the hand faces down or backwards. |
| stochastic |
of, or arising from chance or probability. |