| declivity |
a downward or descending slope. |
| diurnal |
occurring or active during, or belonging to, the daytime rather than nighttime. |
| facetious |
not serious; humorous or frivolous. |
| inchoate |
partially or imperfectly developed. |
| ineluctable |
impossible to be avoided; inescapable. |
| intransigence |
refusal to alter one's ideas or position in response to the wishes of others. |
| parvenu |
a person who has suddenly acquired wealth or status, without acquiring the tastes, manners, customs, or the like of his or her new station. |
| purvey |
to supply or provide (especially food, drink, or other provisions). |
| rapacious |
capable of capturing and eating live prey; predacious. |
| reprobate |
an evil or lawless person, often beyond hope of redemption. |
| solecism |
a gross violation of convention in grammar, etiquette, or the like; impropriety. |
| stipple |
a method of painting, drawing, or engraving by applying small points, dots, or dabs to a surface. |
| stridulate |
to produce a shrill grating, creaking, or chirping sound by rubbing certain parts of the body together, as some insects do. |
| symbiosis |
a close association, usually a mutually beneficial relationship, between two dissimilar organisms. |
| transpose |
to exchange the position or order of (two things). |