wanderer

posterity        people in future; all descendants; posterity is likely to be wrong as anyone else.

portend
 
legerdemain  show of skill; A dazzling display of political legerdemain.

firmament      sky; celebrities' sphere of operation;  a big name in the yachting firmament; In the college firmament.

devolve into dysfunction.

discombobulated

ravenous            <>cravenous

ignominious          shameful, despicable

quote of the day: Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers. -Jimmy Breslin

halcyon     tranquil; The halcyon days under Mike D'Antoni seemed like a long era

seminal               He prepared a speech descrbing his experiment, never realizing that  his presentation would be the seminal event in the development of a new theory. <>seminar

carnal              relating to physical needs; sensual; relating to body; carnal appetite;

cavalcade          procession; series; a cavalcade of gangs;

sticky-fingered   likely to steal;

petulant            ill-tempered or sulky in a peevish manner;

lurid        horrifying or shocking; unattracively bright; a lurid green; glowing unnaturally; pallid=with a pale sickly complexion. lurid details<>gory details;

britches           too big for your britches behaving in a self-important manner; he's getting too big for his britches;

inveigh    the detective had, indeed, good reasons to inveigh against the bad luck which purused him.

addle      to muddle, to confuse;  <>puddle.

inimical        not favorable; The criticism is more inimical than constructive.

opprobrious