| assail |
to attack with vigor or violence; assault. |
| attune |
to adjust so as to be harmonious. |
| canard |
a deliberately false story or rumor, usually defamatory to someone. |
| centripetal |
forced or moving inward toward a center point or axis. |
| dilatory |
used to cause a delay. |
| disallow |
to refuse to allow or admit; reject. |
| dissemble |
to disguise or hide behind a false semblance; conceal the true nature or state of. |
| epicure |
a person who has cultivated tastes, as in food or wine; connoisseur. |
| fledge |
to grow flight feathers. |
| misfeasance |
a normally lawful act performed in an unlawful way. |
| opiate |
something that induces relaxation, calm, or stupor. |
| reprisal |
injury inflicted in retaliation for injury received, as in war; revenge. |
| seminal |
of critical importance; essential. |
| sequester |
to remove into protection and isolation; seclude. |
| tort |
in law, any civil rather than criminal harm or injury that violates the implicit duty of each citizen not to harm others, and for which one may bring a civil suit and collect compensation. |