proclamation

• The setting forth of a subject under the guise of another subject of aptly suggestive likeness.
• One who narrates anything.
• Any announcement made in a public manner.
• One of three men united coordinately in public office or authority.

didactic

• Naked.
• Pertaining to teaching.
• Pertaining to or consisting of air or gas.
• Of senatorial or noble rank.

disown

• To instill, introduce, or inculcate, as principles or qualities.
• To make the first attack.
• To refuse to acknowledge as one's own or as connected with oneself.
• To turn within.

symmetrical

• Habitually inactive or idle.
• Being not beyond the reach of power natural, moral, or supernatural.
• Supernatural.
• Well-balanced.

aloof

• Of similar nature or qualities.
• Not in sympathy with or desiring to associate with others.
• Affecting a whole people or all classes, as a disease.
• Despotic.

decimate

• To share the sentiments or mental states of another.
• To tease.
• To appropriate (private property) as forfeited to the public use or treasury.
• To destroy a measurable or large proportion of.

singe

• To burn slightly or superficially.
• To give the authority of law to.
• To go with, or be associated with, as a companion.
• To adapt.

bitterness

• Acridity, as to the taste.
• An eight-page newspaper of any size.
• Any sham, pretense, or deceptive movement.
• An elaborate literary composition presenting a subject in all its parts.

poetics

• The revival of letters, and then of art, which marks the transition from medieval to modern time.
• Loyalty.
• The rules and principles of poetry.
• The boundary-line of a circle.

conformity

• Correspondence in form, manner, or use.
• Insolent disrespect.
• A Greek epic poem describing scenes from the siege of Troy.
• Inadequacy.