| commodious |
comfortably spacious; roomy. |
| condign |
well-deserved or fitting, especially of punishment or reprimand. |
| decedent |
in law, one who has died. |
| despoil |
to forcefully take belongings or goods from; plunder. |
| emulous |
filled with the desire to equal or surpass. |
| extrude |
to force out; expel. |
| flak |
(informal) irritating opposition, criticism, or dissent. |
| fledge |
to grow flight feathers. |
| intelligentsia |
the elite class of highly learned people within a society, or those who consider themselves part of such a class. |
| munificent |
having or showing great generosity. |
| nostrum |
a favorite but unproven scheme or theory, offered as a remedy for social or political problems; panacea. |
| oppugn |
to oppose, contradict, criticize, or call into question. |
| pneumatic |
of, using, or concerning air or other gases. |
| recant |
to withdraw from commitment to (a former position or statement), especially publicly; retract. |
| Saturnalia |
an occasion of unrestrained revelry. |