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indictment (n) the act of accusing; a formal accusation diatribe A forceful and bitter verbal attack against someone or something. ubiquitous (adj) present or existing everywhere penchant (n) a strong attraction or inclination overweening (adj) conceited, presumptuous; excessive, immoderate ignominy (n) shame and disgrace mundane (adj) earthy, worldly, relating to practical and material affairs; concerned with what is ordinary effrontery (n) shameless boldness, impudence lackadaisical (adj) lacking spirit or interest, halfhearted fiat (n) an arbitrary order or decree; a command or act of will or consciousness esoteric (adj) intended for or understood by only a select few, private, secret delineate (v) to portray, sketch, or describe in accurate and vivid detail; to represent pictorially mordant (adj) biting or caustic in thought, manner, or style; sharply or bitterly harsh exigency (n) urgency, pressure; urgent demand, pressing need; an emergency consummate (adj) complete or perfect in the highest degree; (v) to bring to a state of completion or perfection bastion (n) a fortified place, stronghold verdant (adj) green in tint or color; immature in experience or judgement primordial (adj) developed or created at the very beginning; going back to the most ancient times or earliest stage; fundamental, basic piquant (adj) stimulating to the taste or mind; spicy, pungent; appealingly provocative evince (v) to display clearly, to make evident, to provoke allege (v) to assert without proof or confirmation litany (n) a prayer consisting of short appeals to God recited by the leader alternating with responses from the congregation; any repetitive chant; a long list echelon (n) one of a series of grades in an organization or field of activity; an organized military unit; a steplike formation or arrangement paucity (n) an inadequate quantity, scarcity, dearth countermand (v) to cancel or reverse one order or command with another that is contrary to the first juggernaut (n) a massive and inescapable force or object that crushes whatever is in its path saturnine (adj) of a gloomy or surly disposition; cold or sluggish in a mood pertinacious (adj) very persistent; holding firmly to a course of action or a set of beliefs; hard to get rid of, refusing to be put off or denied inordinate (adj) far too great, exceeding reasonable limits, excessive raiment (n) clothing, garments misanthrope (n) a person who hates or despises people picayune (adj) of little value or importance, paltry, measly; concerned with trifling matters, small-minded felicitous (adj) appropriate, apt, well chosen; marked by well-being or good fortune, happy ephemeral (adj) lasting only a short time, short-lived coterie (n) a circle of acquaintances; a close-knit, often exclusive, group of people with common interest counterpart (n) a person or thing closely resembling or corresponding to another; a compliment travesty (n) a grotesque or grossly inferior imitation; a disguise, especially the clothing of the opposite sex; (v) to ridicule by imitating in a broad or burlesque fashion perspicacity (n) keenness in observing and understanding moot (adj) open for discussion and debate, unresolved; (v) to bring up for discussion; (n) a hypothetical law case argued by students motif (n) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design eulogy (n) formal statement of commendation; high praised dissemble (v) to disguise or conceal, deliberately give a false impression undulate (v) to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form talisman (n) an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish suppliant (adj) asking humbly and earnestly; (n) one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, a suitor sacrilege (n) improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred pejorative (adj) tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling myopic (adj) nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment maelstrom (n) a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction histrionic (adj) pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic halcyon (n) a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; (adj) of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent animadversion (n) a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval tenable (adj) capable of being held or defended temporize (v) to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise taciturn (adj) habitually silent or quiet, incline to talk very little germane (adj) relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting eschew (v) to avoid, shun, keep away from emulate (v) to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model acquisitive (adj) able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property inane (adj) silly, empty of meaning or value indigent (adj) needy, impoverished nuance (n) a subtle or slight variation (as in color, meaning, quality), delicate gradation or shade of difference enervate (v) to weaken or lessen the mental, moral, or physical vigor of; enfeeble, hamstring atrophy (n) the wasting away of a body organ or tissue; any progressive decline or failure; (v) to waste away credence (n) belief, mental acceptance articulate (v) to pronounce distinctly; to express well in words; to connect by a joint or joints; (adj) expressed clearly and forcefully; able to employ language clearly and forcefully; jointed utopian (adj) founded upon or involving a visionary view of an ideal world; impractical pusillanimous (adj) contemptibly cowardly or mean-spirited incumbent (adj) obligatory, required; (n) one who holds a specific office at the time spoken of pecuniary (adj) consisting of or measured in money; of or relating to money incarcerate (v) to imprison, confine, jail frenetic (adj) frenzied, highly agitated neophyte (n) a new convert, beginner, novice complicity (n) involvement in wrongdoing; the state of being an accomplice intransigent (adj) refusing to compromise, irreconcilable largesse (n) generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions arrant (adj) thoroughgoing, out-and-out; shamless, blatant recant (v) to withdraw a statement or belief to which one has previously been committed, renounce, retract hallow (v) to set apart as holy or sacred, sanctify, consecrate; to honor greatly, revere irrefutable (adj) impossible to disprove; beyond argument