| alimony |
money that a court orders one member of a divorced couple to pay to the other. |
| buttress |
a structure built to give support to the outside of a building or a wall. |
| cognate |
having a common origin, as languages. |
| culvert |
a man-made channel for drainage or the like that passes under a street or other thoroughfare. |
| delimit |
to define or mark the boundaries of; demarcate. |
| dextrous |
variant of dexterous. |
| effigy |
a likeness of a person, usually sculpted, as on a tomb. |
| egregious |
remarkably bad; flagrant; glaring. |
| gaseous |
in the form of or resembling a gas. |
| hiatus |
a gap or break in activity, time, or space; interruption. |
| hubris |
the pride associated with arrogance; pride considered as sin. |
| ingratiate |
to seek or secure another's favor or approval for (oneself). |
| plethora |
an amount that is more than enough; overabundance. |
| salient |
extremely noticeable or prominent; conspicuous; important. |
| subsume |
to classify, consider, or include (an idea, proposition, or the like) in a more comprehensive or general category or principle. |