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despicable (dihspihkuhbuhl) adjective
1. Worthy only of being despised and rejected.
2. Morally reprehensible. "would do something as despicable as murder"
| Synonyms: | contemptible, base, pitiable, low | | Antonyms: | praiseworthy, admirable, laudable |
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felony (fEHluhnee) noun
A serious crime punishable by death or incarceration.
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grimace (grihmuhs) noun,verb
1. A contorted facial expression. "she made a grimace at the prospect"
2. Contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state. "He grimaced when he saw the amount of homework he had to do"
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indelible (ihndEHlihbuhl) adjective
Cannot be removed, washed away or erased. "an indelible stain"
| Antonyms: | delible, mutable, evanescent, transient |
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indulge (ihnduhlj) verb
1. Give free rein to. "The writer indulged in metaphorical language"
2. Yield (to); give satisfaction to.
3. Enjoy to excess.
| Synonyms: | humor, bask, gratify, satisfy, baby, pamper, appease | | Antonym: | thwart |
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malign (muhliin) verb,adjective
1. Speak unfavorably about.
2. Evil or harmful in nature or influence. "prompted by malign motives" "believed in witches and malign spirits" "gave him a malign look" "a malign lesion"
| Rhymes: | brine, dine, line, mine, nine, pine, shine, shrine, spine, stein, twine, vine, whine, wine, benign, combine, decline, define, design, divine, incline, resign | | Antonyms: | benign, |
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matriarch (maytreeork) noun
An old female who is the head of her family and descendants.
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quirk (kwurk) noun,verb
1. A strange attitude or habit.
2. Twist or curve abruptly. "She quirked her head in a peculiar way"
| Rhymes: | clerk, lurk, smirk, work |
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vignette (vihnyEHt) noun
1. A brief literary description.
2. A photograph whose edges shade off gradually.
3. A small illustrative sketch (as sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books).
| Rhymes: | bet, debt, jet, let, met, pet, set, sweat, threat, wet, whet, yet, abet, beset, cassette, cornet, duet, forget |
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