[ kav-uh-leer ]

haughty, disdainful, or supercilious

[ si-nek-duh-kee ]

a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in Texas won by six runs (meaning “Texas's baseball team”)

[ buhg-bair ]

a cause of obsessive fear, irritation, or loathing

[ hawg-wosh ]

refuse given to hogs; swill

[ in-kuhn-des-uhnt ]

intensely bright; brilliant

[ ses-kwi-pi-dey-lee-uhn ]

characterized by long words

[ uhp-breyd ]

to find fault with or reproach severely; censure

[ ahy-det-ik ]

of, relating to, or constituting visual imagery vividly experienced and readily reproducible with great accuracy and in great detail

[ in-di-sol-yuh-buhl ]

not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed