| bellicose |
easily incited to quarrel or fight; belligerent. |
| conjoin |
to combine for a common purpose. |
| contumacious |
stubbornly disobedient; insubordinate; rebellious. |
| debouch |
to advance out of a confined or narrow space such as a canyon into open country. |
| gossamer |
delicately fine, gauzelike, or filmy. |
| harbinger |
someone or something that signals or foreshadows a later arrival or occurrence; herald; forerunner. |
| indolence |
the tendency to avoid exertion or effort; laziness. |
| limn |
to paint or draw. |
| rapacious |
capable of capturing and eating live prey; predacious. |
| reconnaissance |
the act or process of examining an area, especially to gain militarily useful information. |
| reconnoiter |
to go through or over (an area) so as to gain information about it, as for military or engineering purposes. |
| revetment |
a facing of stone, masonry, or the like to support or protect a wall, embankment, or mound of earth. |
| salacious |
excited by lust; lecherous. |
| shunt |
to turn or move aside or out of the way; divert. |
| uxorial |
of, pertaining to, or befitting a wife. |