| Term | Definition |
|---|
| inexorable | immovable, stubborn, instransigent |
| venal | corrupt or open to bribery |
| lugubrious | sad, woebegone, gloomy, mournful |
| mien | appearance, countenance, manner |
| lithe | light, springy, pliable, flexible |
| febrile | feverish |
| dross | waste produce (especially of metallurgy) |
| arrears | that state of being in debt or behind in obligation |
| elan | distinct style, vigor, enthusiasm |
| sunder | To break or wrench apart; sever |
| philistine | materialistic, uneducated, ignorant |
| denouement | the final resolution or clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot |
| philippic | bitter denunciation; fulmination; diatribe |
| discomfit | to confuse and deject, frustrate or defeat |
| attenuate | to weaken or reduce in size\intensity |
| rapproachment | reestablishment of harmonious relations |
| progeny | offspring or result |
| canny | careful, thrifty, skilled |
| recrimination | counter accusations |
| sunder | break apart or sever |
| dalliance | flirting or the killing of time |
| heuristics | an educational method in which learning takes place through discoveries that result from investigations made by the student. |
| paucity | scarcity; dearth |
| baleful | deadly, sinister, threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments |
| comity | a state of harmony, civility, or mutual respect |
| seriatim | in a series; one after another. |
| ataxia | chaotic, loss of coordination |
| coevals | all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age |
| poltroon | craven, thorough coward |
| virile | manly, energetic, vigor |
| axillary | armpit area |
| coruscate | to sparkle, gleam or reverberate |
| winsome | charming in a childlike or naive way |
| favonian | favorable, mild, benign |
| nacreous | iridescent , having a play of lustrous rainbow-like colors |
| nictate | to wink |
| anent | about; concerning; in respect to |
| bower | hidden or private place |
| recumbent | lying down |
| friable | easily crumbled or pulverized |
| mawkish | effusively or insincerely emotional |
| transom | litte window above door |
| icondite | crude, rough, unmannered |
| venery | indulgence of sexual pleasure |
| verisimilitude | the appearance of truth |
| incarnadine | carnation-coloured; blood-red |
| eructations | belch |
| ecru | a very light brown |
| chiaroscuro | juxtaposition of light and shade in artwork or literature |
| duenna | elderly woman chaperon of a young lady; governess |
| palpate | to examine by touch with the hand |
| alembic | anything that refines or transmutes, as if by distillation |
| argent | lustrous gray |
| glaucous | having a frosted look from a powdery coating, as on plants |
| lentigo | freckle |
| purblind | lacking in insight or discernment |
| ineffable | incapable of being expressed; indescribable or unutterable |
| tumescent | abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas |
| inexorably | adv. not capable of being persuaded, very stubborn |
| maudlin | effusively or insincerely emotional |
| dryad | A deity or nymph of the woods |
| antiphony | An anthem or other composition sung responsively. |
| purlieus | an outlying area |
| waif | homeless child or animal |
| plangency | having the character of a loud deep sound |
| trochaic | A stressed followed by an unstressed syllable (older) |
| lilt | a soft cadence |
| concourse | a coming together of people |
| remonstration | the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest |
| harrowing | extremely disturbing or distressing |
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