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| Explanation of prerogative (noun) privilege or power attaching to a position; right Sample of prerogative It is the prerogative of retired people like myself, who no longer carry responsibility, to speak of ideal and hypothetical solutions.
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| Explanation of sinister (adjective) threatening or showing evil; dishonest; malicious Sample of sinister Some birds are sinister: the Carnero , a mean-spirited gray monster, is said to delight in picking out the eyeballs of shipwrecked sailors.
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| Explanation of delinquent (noun) offender; person who is guilty of an offense Sample of delinquent God forbid!, said Dionne, just that I'm living with a delinquent at the moment and it makes me feel mature.
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| Explanation of vanquish (verb) to subdue; to conquer; to defeat; to win Sample of vanquish Engels's argument is clear: the Germans were able to vanquish the Romans because their society was not so internally corrupted by class.
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| Explanation of bog (noun) swamp; marshland; wet spongy ground Sample of bog According to the society, water voles, otters, redshank, snipe and lapwing and wetland plants such as marsh orchid and bog pimpernel had declined as a result of over-abstraction and drainage over many years.
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| Explanation of vituperation (noun) harsh rebuke; abusive condemnation; denunciation Sample of vituperation The Old Testament has a nice line in vituperation of other cultures and their beliefs when its writers suggest that non-Israelites worship, not the true God, but satyrs or he-goats or demons.
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| Explanation of fulsome (adjective) disgusting due to excess; crude; repulsive; offensive Sample of fulsome The man became obese when he indulged in fulsome eating.
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| Explanation of imposture (noun) fraud; deception; deceit; forgery Sample of imposture In a day and a night of violence and imposture William Bentley, working for his uncle, the captain of the frigate Welfare , also succeeds in capturing Jesse Broad, a smuggler returning with a cargo from a French ship.
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| Explanation of impregnable (adjective) unconquerable; unbeatable; invulnerable; indisputable Sample of impregnable After another successful campaign, apart from some setbacks in Wales and near-disaster in Scotland, the Thatcher regime seemed as impregnable as before.
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| Explanation of curt (adjective) rudely abrupt; blunt; brief; gruff Sample of curt The truth is that it is an exceedingly complex concept; and nothing but confusion can arise from attempts to reduce it to curt labels and pat slogans.
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