abortive:
failing to succeed; unsuccessful
bruit: noise; din; clamor
contumelious: insulting display
of contempt in words or actions; contemptuous or humiliating
treatment
dictum: an authoritative
pronouncement; judicial assertion
ensconce: to
settle securely or snugly
iconoclastic: attacking or ignoring
beliefs and long-held traditions, etc., as being based on error, superstition,
or lack of creativity
in medias res: in the middle of
things
internecine: of or pertaining to
conflict or struggle within a group
maladroit: unskillful; awkward;
bungling
maudlin: tearfully or weakly
emotional; foolishly sentimental
modulate: to regulate by or
adjust to a certain measure or proportion
portentous: ominously significant
or indicative
prescience: knowledge of things
before they exist or happen; foresight
quid pro quo: one thing in return
for another
salubrious: favorable to or
promoting health
saturnalian: the festival
of Saturn, celebrated in December in ancient Rome as a time of
unrestrained merrymaking
touchstone: a test or criterion
for the qualities of a thing
traumatic: of, pertaining to,
or produced by a trauma or wound
vitiate: to impair the quality
of; make faulty; spoil
waggish: roguish in merriment and
good humor
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