| affidavit |
a written statement that is sworn in the presence of an authorized official to be true, used as legal evidence. |
| commodious |
comfortably spacious; roomy. |
| descant |
a secondary, usually higher, melody that is played or sung at the same time as the chief melody. |
| epigraph |
a pertinent quotation or motto, especially found at the beginning of a literary work or of a chapter. |
| exceptionable |
likely to be objected to; objectionable. |
| garble |
to mix up, distort, or confuse (a message, translation, or the like); cause to be disordered or unintelligible. |
| harbinger |
someone or something that signals or foreshadows a later arrival or occurrence; herald; forerunner. |
| immiscible |
not able to be mixed or blended. |
| insularity |
the condition of being closed to new ideas or outside influences; narrow-mindedness. |
| libertine |
acting without restraint; dissolute; amoral. |
| periphrasis |
an indirect or roundabout way of phrasing something; circumlocution. |
| peroration |
the concluding part of a speech in which there is a summing up of the principal points. |
| rodomontade |
puffed-up boasting or bravado. |
| solipsism |
the self-centered habit of interpreting and judging all things exclusively according to one's own concepts of meaning and value. |
| somatic |
of or pertaining to the body itself; corporeal. |