| appellative |
a descriptive name or title, as "Terrible" in "Ivan the Terrible". |
| apposite |
fitting; pertinent; appropriate. |
| appurtenance |
(plural) equipment or instruments used for a given purpose; gear. |
| calumny |
a harmful statement, known by the maker to be false. |
| divergence |
the act of separating and moving or leading in different directions. |
| doggerel |
trivial, crudely constructed verse. |
| eulogy |
a spoken or written tribute, especially to honor a dead person; high praise; formal commendation. |
| exegesis |
a critical explanation or interpretive analysis, especially of religious texts. |
| extrude |
to force out; expel. |
| fulminate |
to vehemently denounce or criticize something. |
| harbinger |
someone or something that signals or foreshadows a later arrival or occurrence; herald; forerunner. |
| ineluctable |
impossible to be avoided; inescapable. |
| malinger |
to pretend illness or injury, especially in order to be excused from duty or work. |
| maverick |
a person who thinks and behaves independently, especially one who refuses to adhere to the orthodoxy of the group to which he or she belongs. |
| pinchbeck |
false, sham, or counterfeit. |