| apprehensive |
feeling fearful about future events. |
| boudoir |
a woman's private sitting room or bedroom. |
| convoluted |
complex; intricate. |
| exponent |
one that expounds or interprets. |
| germane |
having relevance to a given matter; pertinent; significant. |
| goad |
something that spurs a person to action; stimulus. |
| impugn |
to call into question; challenge or try to discredit. |
| irrefragable |
impossible to refute or dispute; undeniable. |
| mendicant |
living on charity; begging. |
| ontogeny |
the process of biological growth and development of a particular living organism. |
| relict |
a plant, animal, or geological feature that has survived in a considerably changed environment. |
| revetment |
a facing of stone, masonry, or the like to support or protect a wall, embankment, or mound of earth. |
| saturnine |
gloomy, sullen, or cynical in temperament or appearance. |
| triage |
a system of determining priority of medical treatment, on the basis of need, chances of survival, and the like, to victims on a battlefield or in a hospital emergency ward. |
| uxorial |
of, pertaining to, or befitting a wife. |