| appellative |
a descriptive name or title, such as "the Terrible" in "Ivan the Terrible" or "the Great" in "Alexander the Great." |
| diurnal |
occurring or active during, or belonging to, the daytime rather than nighttime. |
| doggerel |
trivial, crudely constructed verse. |
| doyen |
the senior or highest-ranking male member of a group. |
| indolence |
the tendency to avoid exertion or effort; laziness. |
| inflection |
change that occurs in the form of words to show a grammatical characteristic such as the tense of a verb, the number of a noun, or the degree of an adjective or adverb. |
| jeremiad |
a long complaint about life or one's situation; lamentation. |
| laureate |
one honored for achievement in a particular field or by a particular award, especially in the arts or sciences. |
| libertine |
acting without restraint; dissolute; amoral. |
| maverick |
a person who thinks and behaves independently, especially one who refuses to adhere to the orthodoxy of the group to which he or she belongs. |
| munificent |
having or showing great generosity. |
| nonpareil |
a person or thing whose excellence is unequaled; paragon. |
| quotidian |
happening every day or once a day. |
| solecism |
a gross violation of convention in grammar, etiquette, or the like; impropriety. |
| somatic |
of or pertaining to the body itself; corporeal. |