| apropos |
appropriate; relevant; opportune. |
| boudoir |
a woman's private sitting room or bedroom. |
| élan |
enthusiasm or vigor. |
| effluvium |
an outflow of usually invisible, foul-smelling vapor or gas. |
| exegesis |
a critical explanation or interpretive analysis, especially of religious texts. |
| festoon |
a decorative chain or strip of ribbons, flowers, leaves, or the like, suspended at the ends and hung in a curve. |
| fledge |
to grow flight feathers. |
| guru |
in a cult or religious movement, a spiritual guide or leader, sometimes believed to be divine. |
| insipid |
having a bland or uninteresting flavor; tasteless. |
| pastiche |
a work of visual art, music, or literature that consists mostly of materials and techniques borrowed from other works, sometimes done as an exercise to learn the technique of others. |
| profligate |
totally given over to immoral and shameful pursuits; dissolute. |
| quondam |
having been in the past; former. |
| recrudesce |
to become active again or break out anew, as a disease or harmful condition. |
| Sabbatarian |
one who observes the Sabbath on Saturday, as Jews and certain Christians. |
| triage |
a system of determining priority of medical treatment, on the basis of need, chances of survival, and the like, to victims on a battlefield or in a hospital emergency ward. |