WW 9.11 Flashcards
Agrarian
Relating to agriculture and tending of land
Burgeon
Growing or increasing rapidly
Cataclysm
A large scale violent event in the natural world
Culinary
Of food or cooking
Denigrate
To criticize unfairly
Gourmet
Relating to high quality, sometimes expensive, specialty foods
Grandiloquent
A lofty extravagantly, colorful manner or quality
Hybrid
An offspring of different pairings of genes (of mixed origin)
Manifold
Many and/or various
Palatable
A food or drink that is pleasant to taste, tolerable
Panacea
A solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases
Plebeian
One of the common people
Scourge
An instrument to inflict pain or punishment
Stalemate
A situation in which a solution of opposing parties seem impossible
Temperate
Relating to climate with moderate temperatures