- capricious: adjective; given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behaviour.
- supercilious: adjective; behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others.
- panoply: noun; a complete or impressive collection of things, a splendid display.
- synecdoche: noun; a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in "Cleveland won by six runs" (meaning "Cleveland's baseball team won by six runs").
- postlapsarian: adjective; occurring or existing after the Fall of Man.
- weltschmerz: noun; a feeling of melancholy or world-weariness; coined by the German author Jean Paul, denotes the kind of feeling experienced by someone who understands that physical reality can never satisfy the demands of the mind.
- esoteric: intended for or likely understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest.
- salient: most noticeable or important; prominent, conspicuous.
- verisimilitude: The appearance of being real or true.
- opprobrium: harsh criticism or censure (as in, "his films and the critical opprobrium they have generated"; the public disgrace arising from someone's shameful conduct (as in, "the opprobrium of being closely associated with thugs and gangsters").
- disseminate: spread or disperse something (especially information) widely; spread throughout an organ or the body.
- lugubrious: looking or sounding sad, dismal; mournful, especially exaggeratedly or affectedly so.
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- egregious: can mean one of two things: outstandingly bad or remarkably good (archaic).
- quotidian: of or occurring every day; daily.
- apoplectic: overcome with anger; extremely indignant.
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