| askance |
with distrust or suspicion. |
| beatify |
to admire or exalt as superior. |
| blatant |
completely obvious or undisguised, sometimes offensively so. |
| corollary |
a readily drawn conclusion; deduction or inference. |
| doggerel |
trivial, crudely constructed verse. |
| epicene |
sharing the traits of both sexes. |
| extort |
to extract or obtain (money or the like) by force, threats, or abuse of authority. |
| festoon |
a decorative chain or strip of ribbons, flowers, leaves, or the like, suspended at the ends and hung in a curve. |
| gloaming |
late evening; dusk; twilight. |
| goad |
something that spurs a person to action; stimulus. |
| impediment |
an obstacle or hindrance. |
| imprecation |
a curse, uttered or thought of. |
| liminal |
of or at the threshold of a physiological or psychological response or change of state. |
| sere1 |
dried up or withered. |
| stative |
in grammar, of or designating a category of verbs that express state or condition. |