| cuisine |
a particular type of cooking, especially that of a particular region, or the food in general that is prepared in this way. |
| dirge |
a song or hymn for a funeral or memorial for the dead. |
| flippant |
disrespectful or indifferent to someone or something worthy of respect; shallowly humorous. |
| fragmentary |
consisting of fragments; incomplete or disconnected. |
| imponderable |
unable to be evaluated or calculated accurately. |
| indigence |
lack of means to live; poverty. |
| intrusion |
the act of entering or thrusting oneself in when not invited or welcomed. |
| mercurial |
volatile in temper; changeable; fickle. |
| obliterate |
to erase or make unrecognizable by erasing. |
| penurious |
extremely needy or poor; poverty-stricken. |
| puerile |
immature or silly; childish. |
| sodden |
drenched with liquid; saturated; soaked. |
| stricture |
that which restricts or constrains. |
| stymie |
throw an obstacle in the way of (something or someone); impede; thwart. |
| succumb |
to give in or give way to a fatal illness, superior force, overwhelming desire, or the like; yield. |