| bellicose |
easily incited to quarrel or fight; belligerent. |
| commodious |
comfortably spacious; roomy. |
| despoil |
to forcefully take belongings or goods from; plunder. |
| disabuse |
to free (a person) from misconception or deception; set straight. |
| disingenuous |
not candid or sincere. |
| etiolate |
to weaken, especially through deprivation of normal development. |
| highbrow |
one who has or pretends to have highly sophisticated intellectual and cultural interests and tastes (often used disparagingly). |
| impermeable |
not permitting passage or penetration. |
| imprimatur |
any official permission or sanction. |
| internecine |
of or pertaining to conflict, discord, or struggle within a group. |
| limn |
to paint or draw. |
| mendicant |
living on charity; begging. |
| periphrasis |
an indirect or roundabout way of phrasing something; circumlocution. |
| picayune |
having little value or significance; small; paltry. |
| recidivism |
chronic return to bad habits, especially criminal relapse. |