| caparison |
decorative trappings to cover a horse's saddle or harness. |
| conclave |
a secret, private, or confidential meeting or gathering. |
| conjoin |
to combine for a common purpose. |
| corollary |
a readily drawn conclusion; deduction or inference. |
| disabuse |
to free (a person) from misconception or deception; set straight. |
| dissimulate |
to hide one's true feelings, intentions, or the like by pretense or hypocrisy. |
| doggerel |
trivial, crudely constructed verse. |
| feckless |
weak or incompetent; ineffective. |
| garble |
to mix up, distort, or confuse (a message, translation, or the like); cause to be disordered or unintelligible. |
| granulate |
to make into small particles or grains. |
| guttural |
articulated in the back of the mouth; velar. |
| perquisite |
a payment or benefit in addition to the wages or salary associated with a position. |
| shyster |
a person, usually a lawyer, who uses underhanded, unethical methods. |
| stridulate |
to produce a shrill grating, creaking, or chirping sound by rubbing certain parts of the body together, as some insects do. |
| transpose |
to exchange the position or order of (two things). |