Adumbrate: to produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch.
Apotheosis: the elevation or exaltation of a person to the rank of a god
Ascetic: a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons.
Bauble: a showy, usually cheap, ornament
Beguile: to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude
Burgeon: to grow or develop quickly; flourish: complement
Contumacious: stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient.
Curmudgeon: a bad-tempered, difficult, cantankerous person
Didactic: intended for instruction; instructive: didactic poetry. inclined to teach or lecture others too much
Disingenuous: lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; falsely or hypocritically ingenuous; insincere
Exculpate: to clear from a charge of guilt or fault; free from blame; vindicate.
Faux pas: a slip or blunder in etiquette, manners, or conduct; an embarrassing social blunder or indiscretion.
Fulminate: to explode with a loud noise; detonate.
Fustian: a stout fabric of cotton and flax.
Hauteur: haughty manner or spirit; arrogance.
Inhibit: to restrain, hinder, arrest, or check (an action, impulse,)
Jeremiad: a prolonged lamentation or mournful complaint
Opportunist: a person who practices opportunism, or the policy of adapting actions, decisions, etc., to effectiveness regardless of the sacrifice of ethical principles:
Unconscionable: not guided by conscience; unscrupulous.
