| alluvium |
sand, soil, gravel, or the like deposited by moving water, as along a river bed. |
| apocryphal |
of dubious authorship or authority. |
| assuage |
to make less severe or more bearable; alleviate. |
| atonement |
the act of making reparation for a sin, crime, error, or the like. |
| benign |
causing little or no harm. |
| commodious |
comfortably spacious; roomy. |
| doggerel |
trivial, crudely constructed verse. |
| erratic |
not expected or predicted; not regular. |
| fungible |
interchangeable. |
| harrow |
to go over or break up with a harrow. |
| imbroglio |
a difficult, confused, or complicated situation, often involving a misunderstanding, disagreement, or quarrel. |
| lachrymose |
weeping, tending to weep readily, or being on the point of tears; tearful. |
| rodomontade |
puffed-up boasting or bravado. |
| sententious |
using or marked by pompous, high-flown moralizing. |
| sere1 |
dried up or withered. |