| astringent |
a substance or drug that contracts body tissue and slows discharge or secretion. |
| barrage |
a great number of things coming one after another very quickly. |
| brash |
rudely self-assertive; bold; impudent. |
| caparison |
decorative trappings to cover a horse's saddle or harness. |
| conclave |
a secret, private, or confidential meeting or gathering. |
| extrude |
to force out; expel. |
| goad |
something that spurs a person to action; stimulus. |
| harbinger |
someone or something that signals or foreshadows a later arrival or occurrence; herald; forerunner. |
| indolence |
the tendency to avoid exertion or effort; laziness. |
| indurate |
to make hard in texture; harden. |
| insouciant |
having no cares or anxieties; light-hearted; carefree. |
| jeremiad |
a long complaint about life or one's situation; lamentation. |
| obtrusive |
aggressive and self-assertive, or inclined to be so. |
| peroration |
the concluding part of a speech in which there is a summing up of the principal points. |
| refulgent |
shining brilliantly; radiant. |