| Term | Definition |
|---|
| abet | to encourage, assist, aid, support (especially in something wrong or unworthy) |
| aver | to affirm, declare confidently; assert, asseverate, avouch |
| blatant | noisy in a coarse, offensive way; obvious or conspicuous, especially in an unfavorable sense; flagrant, glaring, egregious, disagreeably loud |
| broach | to bring up or begin to talk about (a subject); to announce, introduce; to break the surface of the water; to turn sideways to the wind and waves; to pierce (a keg or cask) in order to draw off liquid; a spit for roasting; a tool for tapping casks |
| buttress | to support, prop up, strengthen; bolster, reinforce, brace, shore up; a surpporting structure |
| carousal | noisy revelry or merrymaking (often with a suggestion of heavy drinking); drinking bout, drunken revel, binge |
| collate | to compare critically in order to note differences, similarities, etc.; to arrange in order for some specific purpose; sort out, cross-check, rearrange |
| connoisseur | an expert; one who is well qualified to pass critical judgments, especially in one of the fine arts; authority, savant, pundit |
| disconsolate | deeply unhappy or dejected; without hope, beyond consolation; grief-stricken, inconsolable, comfortless |
| encumber | to weigh down or burden (with difficulties, cares, debt, etc.); to fill up, block up, hinder; overload, saddle, hamper, clog |
| foment | to promote trouble or rebellion; to apply warm liquids to, warm; instigate, incite, stir up |
| grisly | frightful, horrible, ghastly; gruesome, gory, hideous |
| herculean | (H) relating to Hercules; (h) characterized by great strengh; very hard to do in the sense of requiring unusual strength; mighty, powerful, arduous, onerous, colossal |
| impassive | showing no feeling or emotion; inanimate; motionless; emotionless, stocial, unemotional, insensible |
| inauspicious | unfavorable, unlucky, suggesting bad luck for the future; unpropitious, unpromising, untimely |
| incontrovertible | unquestionable, beyond dispute; incontestable, indisputable, indubitable |
| nonplussed | puzzled, not knowing what to do, at a loss; perpelexed, baffled, stumped, flabbergasted |
| opportune | suitable or convenient for a particular purpose; occurring at an appropriate time |
| prolific | abundantly productive; abundant, profuse; fruitful, fecund, proliferous |
| rejoinder | a reply to a reply, especially from the defendant in a legal suit; answer, reply, response, riposte, retort |
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