Encomium
Noun: glowing and enthusiastic praise, panegyric
Excoriate
Verb: to censure, to upbraid
Execrate
Verb: to denounce, to declare evil
Extirpate
Verb: to kill completely, as to the root
Fatuous
Adj: silly, foolish
Gainsay
Verb: to deny, to oppose
Heterodox
Adj: unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic
Imbroglio
Noun: embarrassing situation
Ineluctable
Adj: certain, inevitable
Insouciant
Adj: unconcerned, carefree, heedless
Inveterate
Adj: deep rooted, ingrained
Lubricious
Adj: lewd, wanton, slippery
Mendicant
Noun: a beggar
Meretricious
Adj: cheap, gaudy, attracting by false show
Minatory
Adj: menacing, threatening-Like the Minotaur