| adulteration |
the act or process of making worse or impure by adding unnecessary or inferior ingredients. |
| antediluvian |
hopelessly old-fashioned; primitive; outdated. |
| banal |
lacking originality or liveliness; disappointingly ordinary; commonplace; trite. |
| barrage |
a great number of things coming one after another very quickly. |
| cantankerous |
irritable, stubborn, and quarrelsome. |
| consummate |
of the highest order or degree. |
| deposition |
a sworn statement, usually in writing, for use as testimony by an absent witness in a court of law. |
| despoil |
to forcefully take belongings or goods from; plunder. |
| disallow |
to refuse to allow or admit; reject. |
| forbear |
to keep or abstain from (an action or utterance). |
| garrulous |
given to talking excessively. |
| guru |
in a cult or religious movement, a spiritual guide or leader, sometimes believed to be divine. |
| mahatma |
(sometimes capitalized) in Buddhism and theosophy, any of a class of persons revered for their wisdom and love of humanity. |
| pretentious |
assuming or marked by an air of importance or superiority that is unwarranted. |
| recurve |
to bend or curve back or backward, as the ends of certain shooting bows. |