| caricature |
a depiction, in a drawing or verbal description, that deliberately exaggerates or distorts some features of the person or thing represented to produce a comic or grotesque appearance. |
| consort |
a wife or husband, especially of a royal personage. |
| culvert |
a man-made channel for drainage or the like that passes under a street or other thoroughfare. |
| embellish |
to improve by, or as though by, decorations; decorate. |
| hone |
to make more effective or adept; perfect. |
| motley |
made up of a contrasting variety of types, appearances, or the like; very heterogeneous. |
| ogle |
to look or stare at (someone) in a lustful or flirtatious manner. |
| parochial |
narrow or limited in scope or viewpoint; provincial. |
| profusion |
an abundant supply or display. |
| ramify |
to have or produce effects or consequences that make some original matter more complex. |
| recount |
to tell a history of events; relate; narrate. |
| refraction |
the bending of rays or waves of light, heat, sound, or the like when passed obliquely from one medium to another with a different rate of transmission. |
| scrimmage |
a vigorous struggle; scuffle. |
| subversive |
tending or intended to undermine or cause the overthrow of an established authority, especially a national government. |
| winsome |
attractive or charming. |