| apprehensive |
feeling fearful about future events. |
| asterisk |
a sign (*). It is used to show that there is other information on the page that explains the information where the sign is placed. |
| austerity |
a tightened or stringent economy, as when there are high taxes, frozen wages, and shortages of consumer goods. |
| belabor |
to continue excessive efforts on or excessive discussion of. |
| desiccate |
to remove the moisture in (food) so as to preserve it. |
| exceptionable |
likely to be objected to; objectionable. |
| garrulous |
given to talking excessively. |
| immiscible |
not able to be mixed or blended. |
| intransigence |
refusal to alter one's ideas or position in response to the wishes of others. |
| jeremiad |
a long complaint about life or one's situation; lamentation. |
| ontogeny |
the process of biological growth and development of a particular living organism. |
| quondam |
having been in the past; former. |
| scion |
an offspring or heir. |
| stanch1 |
to cause (a liquid, especially blood) to stop flowing. |
| triage |
a system of determining priority of medical treatment, on the basis of need, chances of survival, and the like, to victims on a battlefield or in a hospital emergency ward. |