| benign |
causing little or no harm. |
| bilge |
the rounded part of a ship's hull between the bottom and the sides. |
| collateral |
property or other security put forward to guarantee repayment of a loan. |
| corollary |
a readily drawn conclusion; deduction or inference. |
| disinter |
to dig up or remove from a place of burial; exhume. |
| glabrous |
having no hair or fuzz; bald; smooth. |
| inculcate |
to cause to accept an idea or value; imbue. |
| inflection |
change that occurs in the form of words to show a grammatical characteristic such as the tense of a verb, the number of a noun, or the degree of an adjective or adverb. |
| jeremiad |
a long complaint about life or one's situation; lamentation. |
| minatory |
presenting a threat; menacing. |
| misanthrope |
someone who hates or distrusts humanity. |
| neophyte |
a beginner or novice at any activity. |
| reprise |
repetition of a musical phrase or theme in an identical or slightly altered way. |
| sententious |
using or marked by pompous, high-flown moralizing. |
| stridulate |
to produce a shrill grating, creaking, or chirping sound by rubbing certain parts of the body together, as some insects do. |