| abstruse |
difficult to comprehend or understand; esoteric; arcane. |
| alfresco |
in the open air; outdoors. |
| appellative |
a descriptive name or title, as "Terrible" in "Ivan the Terrible". |
| appurtenance |
(plural) equipment or instruments used for a given purpose; gear. |
| attenuate |
to cause to be thin, rarefied, or fine. |
| baneful |
causing or leading to death, destruction, or ruin; harmful or deadly. |
| distraught |
mentally or emotionally unbalanced; crazed. |
| fulminate |
to vehemently denounce or criticize something. |
| goad |
something that spurs a person to action; stimulus. |
| inadvertent |
not planned or intended; unintentional. |
| indulgent |
gratifying, or being inclined to gratify or yield to others' wishes, especially rather than enforcing discipline or strictness. |
| quotidian |
happening every day or once a day. |
| sanctimony |
a pretense of righteousness or piety; feigned devotion or holiness. |
| Saturnalia |
an occasion of unrestrained revelry. |
| splenetic |
ill-tempered or spiteful. |