| abut |
to adjoin or press against; be next to; border on. |
| apprehensive |
feeling fearful about future events. |
| arrant |
complete; unmitigated; downright. |
| canny |
difficult to fool or take advantage of; shrewd; wary; clever. |
| centripetal |
forced or moving inward toward a center point or axis. |
| dissemble |
to disguise or hide behind a false semblance; conceal the true nature or state of. |
| froward |
unwilling to agree or obey; stubborn; perverse. |
| gamut |
the whole extent or range of anything. |
| indurate |
to make hard in texture; harden. |
| laudatory |
expressing praise. |
| parsimonious |
excessively frugal; stingy. |
| parvenu |
a person who has suddenly acquired wealth or status, without acquiring the tastes, manners, customs, or the like of his or her new station. |
| peroration |
the concluding part of a speech in which there is a summing up of the principal points. |
| pliant |
easily flexed; supple. |
| reconnaissance |
the act or process of examining an area, especially to gain militarily useful information. |