| adulteration |
the act or process of making worse or impure by adding unnecessary or inferior ingredients. |
| ascertain |
to learn without question; determine. |
| caparison |
decorative trappings to cover a horse's saddle or harness. |
| cession |
the act of formally giving up or signing over, as a territory; ceding. |
| commodious |
comfortably spacious; roomy. |
| condign |
well-deserved or fitting, especially of punishment or reprimand. |
| deify |
to raise to the rank of a god; consider to be a god. |
| devolve |
of a duty or the like, to be passed on to someone else. |
| disheveled |
not neat; messy. |
| extrude |
to force out; expel. |
| insipid |
having a bland or uninteresting flavor; tasteless. |
| malinger |
to pretend illness or injury, especially in order to be excused from duty or work. |
| panegyric |
a formal speech or piece of writing devoted to publicly praising a person or thing. |
| Sabbatarian |
one who observes the Sabbath on Saturday, as Jews and certain Christians. |
| stately |
dignified. |