| adamant |
unlikely to change in response to any request or argument; firmly decided or fixed; unyielding. |
| benign |
causing little or no harm. |
| collateral |
property or other security put forward to guarantee repayment of a loan. |
| deify |
to raise to the rank of a god; consider to be a god. |
| descant |
a secondary, usually higher, melody that is played or sung at the same time as the chief melody. |
| dilatory |
used to cause a delay. |
| equipoise |
a state of balance or equal weight, importance, or the like; equilibrium. |
| hirsute |
covered with hair or stiff hairs; hairy or shaggy. |
| impinge |
to encroach. |
| macerate |
to soften (food or the like) by soaking, as in digestion. |
| malapropism |
the humorous or ridiculous misuse of a word, especially by using a word that sounds similar to the correct word, but whose meaning is inappropriate. |
| omnibus |
concerning or including a large collection of things. |
| 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. |
| Saturnalia |
an occasion of unrestrained revelry. |
| 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. |