| coy |
artfully shy or retiring; playfully but calculatingly reticent. |
| cumulative |
becoming larger or greater by means of gradual addition. |
| discontinuous |
interrupted or intermittent; not without pause or break. |
| electrify |
to shock, startle, or excite. |
| euphony |
a pleasing, harmonious quality of sounds, especially words. |
| expeditious |
prompt and efficient. |
| firmament |
the entire arch of the sky; heavens. |
| gesticulation |
the act or an instance of using hand movements, as to add emphasis or expressiveness to speech. |
| heretic |
a person who maintains unorthodox religious opinions or beliefs, especially a baptized Roman Catholic who dissents from official church doctrine. |
| potentate |
a person of great power, such as a ruler. |
| refract |
to bend (rays or waves of light, heat, sound, or the like) in passing (them) obliquely from one medium into another which transmits them at a different speed. |
| secretive |
tending to secrecy. |
| sophomoric |
displaying intellectual pretentiousness or proud confidence about one's knowledge when actually poorly informed or immature. |
| totality |
the state or quality of being total. |
| utopia |
(often capitalized) an imagined or proposed place or society that is ideal, especially in its laws, ethics, and treatment of humanity. |