| apotheosis |
a perfect or ideal example; epitome. |
| austerity |
a tightened or stringent economy, as when there are high taxes, frozen wages, and shortages of consumer goods. |
| compunction |
uneasiness about the propriety or suitability of an action; qualm. |
| contumely |
contemptuous insolence; rudeness. |
| deign |
to consider some act to be appropriate or in keeping with one's dignity; condescend. |
| demotic |
of or relating to the common people; popular. |
| frangible |
easy to break; breakable; fragile. |
| lugubrious |
sad or mournful, especially in an exaggerated way; gloomy. |
| neophyte |
a beginner or novice at any activity. |
| prerogative |
an exclusive right or privilege derived from one's office, position, age, citizenship, birth, or the like. |
| regicide |
the murderer of a king. |
| Saturnalia |
an occasion of unrestrained revelry. |
| sepsis |
infection, especially by pus-forming bacteria in the blood or tissues. |
| surcingle |
a girth or belt that wraps around the body of a horse to secure a saddle, pack, or the like to its back. |
| tort |
in law, any civil rather than criminal harm or injury that violates the implicit duty of each citizen not to harm others, and for which one may bring a civil suit and collect compensation. |