| commune2 |
a group of people living together as a community, working collectively on land owned in common or by a government. |
| condolence |
sympathy with a grieving or suffering person. |
| dapper |
neat and stylish in dress and appearance. |
| encumber |
to hinder the normal progress, performance, or use of. |
| epigram |
a short, pithy, often paradoxical sentence. |
| fanfare |
a flourish of trumpets, used to mark an entrance or beginning. |
| farce |
anything improbable, absurd, or empty of meaning; mockery; sham. |
| fester |
to become filled with pus; become infected. |
| fitful |
occurring at irregular intervals. |
| penitent |
feeling or showing sorrow or regret for having done wrong. |
| pert |
impudent or saucy. |
| scintillate |
to send out sparks. |
| sodden |
drenched with liquid; saturated; soaked. |
| stanza |
a group of related lines in a poem that make up one section within the poem. Stanzas often have a regular meter and rhyme pattern. |
| unvaried |
marked by a lack of diversity; never changing. |