vitriolic - bitterly scathing; caustic; acerb: harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination
myriad - a large and indefinite number; countless: too numerous to be counted
inebriate - exhilarate: fill with sublime emotion; tickle pink; "She was inebriated by her phenomenal success"; souse: become drunk or drink excessively; drunkard; intoxicate (with alcohol)
virtuoso - ace: a brillant, skillful performer in any field (particularly music); guru [Latin] virtus: skill, manliness, excellence
innocuous - innocent: lacking intent or capacity to injure; harmless: unlikely to harm or disturb physical or mental health
obsequious - 1. bootlicking: attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
2. attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner; "obsequious shop assistants" (ingratiate: gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts)
dotards - an oldster in his dotage; someone whose age has impaired his intellect (dotage: mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations)
almsgiving - alms-giving: making voluntary contributions to aid the poor
denzien - a foreigner admitted to residence and certain rights in a country
hooligan - bully: a cruel and brutal fellow; [Irish]: hooley - a wild, spirited party.
vituperation - abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will
fraternize - be on friendly terms with someone, as if with a brother or neighbor, especially with an enemy
naivete - lack of sophistication or worldliness; naivety [French] If you want to use the French spelling, you must do it completely. Don't use naiveté (with an unmarked i). It is definitely not naivetè, which has the wrong accent on the final e.
intrinsic - 1. belonging to a thing by its very nature; "form was treated as something intrinsic, as the very essence of the thing"- John Dewey
2. situated within or belonging solely to the organ or body part on which it acts; "intrinsic muscles"
saboteur - 1. someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks
2. fifth columnist: a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader
Sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.
secessionist - 1. the desire to separate; 2. an advocate of secessionism. Secession is the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or political entity. Typically there is a strong issue difference that drives the withdrawal.
dissension - 1. discord: disagreement among those expected to cooperate
2. disagreement: a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters
internment - to confine, especially in times of war; imprisonment
en masse - (F), in a mass; altogether
rel terms: levée en masse [French] for mass conscription (levy: military draft)
impugning - impugn - attack as false or wrong
veracity - unwillingness to tell lies
implausible - 1.having a quality that provokes disbelief; "gave the teacher an implausible excuse"
2. farfetched: highly imaginative but unlikely; "a farfetched excuse"; "an implausible explanation"
pseud(o) - prefix signifying false or non-identity; assuming a false shape; (often used in combination) not genuine but having the appearance of; "a pseudo esthete"; "pseudoclassic". [Greek] from pseudEs, from pseudesthai to lie.
ambidextrous work drone - ambidextrous: unusually skillful (versatile); drone: DRUDGE (to force to do hard, menial, or monotonous work ) MONOTONOUS (tediously uniform or unvarying)
demarcation - demarcate: back-formation from demarcation, [Spanish] demarcación, from demarcar to delimit, from de- + marcar to mark, from [Italian] marcare, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German marha boundary -- more at MARK
1 : DELIMIT
2 : to set apart : DISTINGUISH
domeneering tyrant - tyrannize: rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner; "her husband and mother-in-law tyrannize her"
perspicacity - 1. Acuteness of perception, discernment, or understanding.
2. judgment: the capacity to assess situations or circumstances (syn.) shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions
perspicacious: to have insight or knowledge
[Latin] perspicere: of acute mental vision or discernment : KEEN
mirage - something illusory and unattainable like a mirage (syn.) DELUSION
eschew - [French] eschiver (3d present eschiu) of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German sciuhen to frighten off -- more at SHY
: to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds : SHUN; (syn.) ESCAPE abstruse - [Latin] abstrusus, from past participle of abstrudere to conceal, from abs-, ab- + trudere to push -- more at THREAT
: difficult to comprehend : RECONDITE
panacea - [Latin] from [Greek] panakeia, from panakEs all-healing, from pan- + akos remedy
: a remedy for all ills or difficulties : CURE-ALL
conjecture - [Latin] conjectura, from conjectus, past participle of conicere, lit. to throw together, from com- + jacere to throw -- more at JET
: inference from defective or presumptive evidence b : a conclusion deduced by surmise or guesswork c : a proposition (as in mathematics) before it has been proved or disproved
inamorata - [Italian] innamorata, from feminine of innamorato, past participle of innamorare to inspire with love, from in- (from Latin) + amore love, from Latin amor -- more at AMOROUS
: a woman with whom one is in love or has intimate relations
endemic - [French] endémique, from endémie endemic disease, from Greek endEmia action of dwelling, from endEmos endemic, from en in + dEmos people, populace -- more at DEMAGOGUE
1 a : belonging or native to a particular people or country b : characteristic of or prevalent in a particular field, area, or environment
2 : restricted or peculiar to a locality or region
stigmatize - to single a person out as someone to be ashamed of;
1. to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful; "He denounced the government action"; "She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock"
2. mark with a stigma or stigmata; "They wanted to stigmatize the adulteress"
perdition - French perdiciun, Late Latin perdition-, perditio, from Latin perdere to destroy, from per- through + dare to give -- more at PER-, DATE
1 a archaic : utter destruction b obsolete : LOSS
2 (Christianity) a: eternal damnation b : HELL (abode of the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment)
bellicose - 1. ready or inclined to quarrel, fight, or go to war; zealous patriotism expressing itself especially in hostility towards other countries
2. battleful: having or showing a ready disposition to fight; "bellicose young officers"; "a combative impulse"; "a contentious nature"
disillusion - 1. disenchantment: freeing from false belief or illusions
2. disenchant: free from enchantment
esoteric - (Greek "esoterikos", "inner") hidden or deeper inner knowledge understood by a few; confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle; "a compilation of esoteric philosophical theories"
concede - 1. Admit, make a clean breast of; "She confessed that she had taken the money" . 2. Acknowledge defeat; "The candidate conceded after enough votes had come in to show that he would lose"
helot - [Old Greek] meaning a serf or slave, and in the twentieth century used to refer specifically to the dispossession and enslavement of occupied peoples in their own land. Helots were Peloponnesian Greeks who were enslaved under Spartan rule.
pertinent - 1. having precise or logical relevance to the matter at hand; "a list of articles pertinent to the discussion"; "remarks that were to the point"
2. apposite: being of striking appropriateness and pertinence; "the successful copywriter is a master of apposite and evocative verbal images"; "an apt reply"
defilement - befoulment: the state of being polluted
philistine - 1. a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia
2. often not capitalized a : a person who is guided by materialism and is usually disdainful of intellectual or artistic values b : one uninformed in a special area of knowledge
entropy - 1. the degradation of matter and energy in the universe to an ultimate state of inert uniformity
2. a process of degradation or running down or a trend to disorder
3 : CHAOS, DISORGANIZATION, RANDOMNESS
kaidan - Japanese film telling a history of phantom, generally avenger.
It represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic centred on the acceptance of transience. Concept derived from the Buddhist assertion of the Three marks of existence — Anicca, or in Japanese, 無常 (mujyou), impermanence.
