| adamant |
unlikely to change in response to any request or argument; firmly decided or fixed; unyielding. |
| attenuate |
to cause to be thin, rarefied, or fine. |
| attune |
to adjust so as to be harmonious. |
| belie |
to give a false impression of. |
| deify |
to raise to the rank of a god; consider to be a god. |
| eulogy |
a spoken or written tribute, especially to honor a dead person; high praise; formal commendation. |
| gird |
to surround, bind, or encircle, as with a belt. |
| granulate |
to make into small particles or grains. |
| hackneyed |
made trite or commonplace by overuse, as an expression or phrase. |
| hypocrisy |
the practice or an instance of stating or pretending to hold beliefs or principles that one does not actually live by; insincerity. |
| 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. |
| mendicant |
living on charity; begging. |
| sanguine |
having an optimistic temperament or outlook. |
| surcingle |
a girth or belt that wraps around the body of a horse to secure a saddle, pack, or the like to its back. |
| travesty |
something so grotesque or inferior as to seem a parody. |