| Term | Definition |
|---|
| abrade | To wear away by friction |
| blanch | to breathily broil, to whiten |
| Breach | (verb) to break or surpass limit |
| breach | (noun) a whole or gap |
| cadence | rhythm and language |
| clad | dressed |
| convolutions | a rolled up condition |
| deluge | (verb) to flood |
| deluge | (noun) flood |
| dictum | a declaration |
| feign | to pretend |
| fervor | intensity, or great warmth |
| filigree | delicate or ornamental work |
| gilt | covered with gold |
| grandiose | more complicated than necessary or pompous |
| heresy | opinion opposite the norm |
| incessant | to not stop |
| incite | to stir up, to forment |
| insidious | harmful but hardly noticed |
| jargon | vocabulary specific to a group |
| juggernaut | Hindu God, or a crushing force |
| luminosity | brightness |
| melancholy | (noun) pensive sadness |
| melancholy | (adj.) felling sadness |
| moor | a wet waste land |
| odious | detestable |
| olfactory | related to smelling |
| pedant | a person who over emphasizes details |
| perfunctory | lacking interest |
| proboscis | trunk, snout, nose |
| proclivity | tendency |
| quibble | (intransitive verb) to make trivial objections |
| quibble | (noun) a trivial objection |
| rend | to tear apart |
| sieve | (verb) to strain |
| sieve | (noun) a strainer |
| stolid | unemotional |
| stratum | layer |
| suffuse | to spread over or through |
| tactile | touchable |
| tallow | animal fat |
| titillate | to excite, to cause somebody to tingle |
| torrent | flood |
| trifle | thing of little value |
| verbiage | (noun) wordiness |
| verbose | (adj) wordiness |
| Annul | Verb, to make void or to cancel; to pretend like it never happened |
| Benevolent | Adj, intending or showing kindness. |
| Burnish | Tran. Verb, to polish until shiny |
| Callous | Adj, hard hearted. |
| Carapace | Noun, Self protectiveness |
| Cede | Verb, to formally surrender to another |
| Coagulate | Verb, to thicken as a liquid. |
| Fathom | Noun, a unit of length equal to six feet |
| Fathom | Verb, to comprehend |
| Filament | Noun, thin like, flexible object |
| Furled | Adj, rolled up and secured. |
| Gaunt | Adj, very thin and boney. |
| Gelatinous | Adj, semi-solid |
| Interminable | Adj, seeming endless |
| Iridescent | Adj, having a brilliant or lustrous appearance |
| Leprous | Adj, white and scaly. |
| Malignancy | noun, the quality of being dangerous |
| Myriad | Adj, too numerous to count. |
| Placid | adj, calm in nature and appearance |
| Proprietor | noun, owner of a business |
| Rigor | noun, toughness in dealing with things |
| Shoal | noun, a shallow place |
| Shoal | noun, a group of similar people |
| Taut | adj, tightened or not slackened. |
| Thwart | verb, to prevent or to hinder |
| Thwart | noun, a crosswise seat or transverse member on a rowboat |
| Undulate | verb, to move like a wave. |
| Wallow | verb, to roll about |
| Wallow | verb, to indulge in something excessively (abstract) |
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