| amortize |
to deduct (expenditures) by fixed amounts over a period of time. |
| animus |
a feeling or attitude of enmity. |
| apprehensive |
feeling fearful about future events. |
| baneful |
causing or leading to death, destruction, or ruin; harmful or deadly. |
| castellated |
constructed with turrets and battlements like a castle. |
| collateral |
property or other security put forward to guarantee repayment of a loan. |
| Draconian |
(often lower case) harshly cruel or rigorous. |
| engender |
to create or give rise to. |
| extrude |
to force out; expel. |
| inadvertent |
not planned or intended; unintentional. |
| nonfeasance |
in law, failure to perform a required duty, as by a public official. |
| peroration |
the concluding part of a speech in which there is a summing up of the principal points. |
| recondite |
involving profound concepts and complexities; not easily understood. |
| spurn |
to reject, refuse, or treat with scorn; disdain; despise. |
| stative |
in grammar, of or designating a category of verbs that express state or condition. |