Crime and Punishment: Part 4

Parvenu n

One who has suddenly acquired wealth or power but has not yet gained the prestige. Or manner associated with it

Fete n

A party or festival, especially one held outdoors

Woolly adj

Marked by mental confusion, or lack of order or restraint

Stipulate n

A contract

Allot v

to assign or distribute in shares or portions

Affront v

an action or remark that causes outrage or offense

Substantiate v

to support with proof or evidence

Pique v

to cause resentment; to provoke; to take pride in

Salient adj

conspicuous, prominent, or important

Divulge v

To make something known; to reveal

Rectify v

to make right, correct

Flagrant adj

obviously offensive

Spurn v

to refuse with scorn, disdain; to trample

Echelon n

A group of individuals at at particular level or grade in an organization or field of activity

Gild v

to give an attractive but often deceptive appearance to

Harangue n

a long, strongly expressed speech or lecture

Callous adj

emotionally hardened, unfeeling

supplicate v

ask for humbly or earnestly, especially in prayer to God

Turpitude n

depravity, moral corruption

Untenable adj

indefensible; uninhabitable

Stultify v

to impair, invalidate, or to make ineffective

Taut adj

high-strung; tense

Inane adj

without sense or meaning; silly

Trite adj

unoriginal and stale due to overuse

Bout n

A session or period of activity

Patronymic n

name derived from a paternal ancestor

Palsy n

paralysis; a condition marked by uncontrollable tremor and quivering

Homespun adj

simple and homely

Muzhik n

A Russian peasant

Verbiage n

language that is too wordy or inflated in proportion to the sense or content, wordiness; a manner of expression

Bonhomie n

good-natured geniality

Conjecture n

An inference, a guess, a supposition

Unremittingly adv

persistently, incessantly

Unvarnished adj

plain; straightforward; frank

Perfidy n

Faithlessness, disloyalty; treachery

Trice n

Instant

Mete v

To distribute; (archaic usage) to measure

Hilt n

To the very limit: completely

Immemorial adj

reaching back beyond the bounds of memory; extremely old

Prospective adj

expected, likely, potential