| adulteration |
the act or process of making worse or impure by adding unnecessary or inferior ingredients. |
| assuage |
to make less severe or more bearable; alleviate. |
| cognizant |
aware; informed (usually followed by "of"). |
| commodious |
comfortably spacious; roomy. |
| dearth |
a shortage or scarcity of something; lack. |
| desideratum |
something that is needed or wanted. |
| devolve |
of a duty or the like, to be passed on to someone else. |
| equivocal |
having at least two plausible alternative meanings, often intentionally so in order to deceive or avoid commitment; ambiguous. |
| flagitious |
viciously or shamefully wicked; infamous. |
| misfeasance |
a normally lawful act performed in an unlawful way. |
| profligate |
totally given over to immoral and shameful pursuits; dissolute. |
| recessional |
a piece of music that accompanies the exit of participants in a program or religious ceremony. |
| splenetic |
ill-tempered or spiteful. |
| stridulate |
to produce a shrill grating, creaking, or chirping sound by rubbing certain parts of the body together, as some insects do. |
| syntax |
the word order or pattern of word order in a sentence. |