| biennial |
happening every second year. |
| cede |
to give up or surrender, especially formally. |
| compulsive |
driven by an obsession or compulsion. |
| conciliatory |
tending to placate or reconcile. |
| connotation |
a secondary meaning or implication of a word or expression, in addition to its primary meaning. |
| empirical |
based on or verifiable by experience or experiment, rather than on or by theory. |
| fitful |
occurring at irregular intervals. |
| inviolate |
not broken, disturbed, or profaned; pure or intact. |
| overweening |
particularly forward, vain, and self-promoting. |
| pall1 |
an atmosphere of gloom or despair. |
| paraphrase |
a restatement of a passage or text in somewhat different words so as to simplify, clarify, or amplify. |
| rile |
to make angry; irritate or annoy. |
| terse |
effectively brief and to the point; concise; pithy. |
| tumult |
the noise and commotion of a large crowd; uproar. |
| universality |
the quality, character, or condition of being universal. |