a cloth spread over a coffin, hearse, or tomb.

having an irritatingly strong and unpleasant taste or smell.

angry and bitter.

example: The acrid smell came from the milk that had spoiled over the weekend

(of a person or their actions) showing a deliberate and obstinate desire to behave in a way that is unreasonable or unacceptable, often in spite of the consequences.

contrary to the accepted or expected standard or practice.

sexually perverted.

example: The psychopath gets a perverse sense of enjoyment from torturing animals.

a secret political clique or faction.

of a disease or poison) extremely severe or harmful in its effects.

bitterly hostile.

example: When John got fired, he threatened to mail his boss a letter that contained a virulent chemical.

a movable frame on which a coffin or a corpse is placed before burial or cremation or on which it is carried to the grave.

impossible to disentangle or separate.

impossible to escape from.

example: The spider’s web was inextricable

The nobility.

The members of the nobility, especially the French nobility.

Example of use: Shortly before returning to his regiment in the early weeks of 1791 he indited a letter inveighing in violent terms against Matteo Buttafuoco, deputy for the Corsican noblesse in the National Assembly of France, as having betrayed the cause of insular liberty in 1768 and as plotting against it again.

A blind or shutter made of a row of angled slats.

A South American trailing plant with round leaves and bright orange, yellow, or red edible flowers that is widely grown as an ornamental.