| alfresco |
in the open air; outdoors. |
| arrant |
complete; unmitigated; downright. |
| barrage |
a great number of things coming one after another very quickly. |
| cognizant |
aware; informed (usually followed by "of"). |
| contretemps |
an embarrassing or unfortunate happening; mishap; mischance. |
| crass |
lacking in sensitivity or refinement; crude. |
| credulous |
disposed to believe, especially on scanty evidence; gullible. |
| disquisition |
a formal, often lengthy, oral or written discussion of a subject. |
| dissemble |
to disguise or hide behind a false semblance; conceal the true nature or state of. |
| eulogy |
a spoken or written tribute, especially to honor a dead person; high praise; formal commendation. |
| gullible |
believing almost anything; easily tricked. |
| indomitable |
too strong to be subdued or discouraged; unconquerable. |
| 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. |
| surcingle |
a girth or belt that wraps around the body of a horse to secure a saddle, pack, or the like to its back. |
| 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. |