Nouns of unusual Power

DERISION: Contemptuous laughter, scornful or mocking ridicule.

"There was a look of derision on the face of the head waiter"

HARRIDAN: A disreputable old woman, a hag

"That harridan aunt of yours has been talking melodrama"

DEBAUCHERY: Sensuality; moral corruption; intemperance

"Why do you yourselves bray before them in their dance of debauchery."

INTRANSIGENCE: Irreconcilability refusal to agree or compromise.

"Intransigence and rebellion is the characteristic of these people"

INVECTIVE: to attack with words, railing abuse.

"Victor Hugo excoriated Napoleon III with magnificent invective."

AUSTERITY: dry, severe simplicity

"We can smile now at the austerity of the Scotch Calvinists."

VORACITY: greediness, gluttony; rapacity

"Our tax bill is not sufficient to meet the voracity of an extravagant administration"

WASTREL: A spendthrift; a waster

"will you be the wastrels of a glorious patrimony?"