| apropos |
appropriate; relevant; opportune. |
| boudoir |
a woman's private sitting room or bedroom. |
| canny |
difficult to fool or take advantage of; shrewd; wary; clever. |
| divergence |
the act of separating and moving or leading in different directions. |
| facetious |
not serious; humorous or frivolous. |
| garrulous |
given to talking excessively. |
| hagiography |
an admiring and uncritical biography of anyone. |
| heinous |
extremely wicked or despicable; atrocious. |
| incursion |
a raid or sudden invasion. |
| lachrymose |
weeping, tending to weep readily, or being on the point of tears; tearful. |
| linguistics |
(used with a singular verb) the scientific and historical study of the form and structure of human language. |
| pastiche |
a work of visual art, music, or literature that consists mostly of materials and techniques borrowed from other works, sometimes done as an exercise to learn the technique of others. |
| rebarbative |
tending to irritate or repel; forbidding or unattractive. |
| shibboleth |
a slogan, phrase, or belief that characterizes or is held devotedly by a group. |
| stridulate |
to produce a shrill grating, creaking, or chirping sound by rubbing certain parts of the body together, as some insects do. |