noun
1.
a medicine sold with false or exaggerated claims and with no demonstrable value; quack medicine.
2.
a scheme, theory, device, etc., esp. one to remedy social or political ills; panacea.
3.
a medicine made by the person who recommends it.
4.
a patent medicine.
chink
–noun
1.
a crack, cleft, or fissure: a chink in a wall.
2.
a narrow opening: a chink between two buildings.
manumit
verb
to release from slavery or servitude.
reprobate
noun
1.
a depraved, unprincipled, or wicked person: a drunken reprobate.
2.
–adjective
3.
morally depraved; unprincipled; bad.
4.
rejected by God and beyond hope of salvation.
–verb (used with object)
5.to disapprove, condemn, or censure.
6.(of God) to reject (a person), as for sin; exclude from the number of the elect or from salvation.
parvenue
a woman who, having risen socially or economically, is considered to be an upstart or to lack the appropriate refinement for her new position
recidivist
repeated or habitual relapse, as into crime.
Psychiatry . the chronic tendency toward repetition of criminal or antisocial behavior patterns.
compunction
a feeling of uneasiness or anxiety of the conscience caused by regret for doing wrong or causing pain; contrition; remorse.
any uneasiness or hesitation about the rightness of an action.
they wanted to sit in the shadow of tree to escape the scorching sun
correction you sit in the shade and not shadow.
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