| adamant |
unlikely to change in response to any request or argument; firmly decided or fixed; unyielding. |
| astringent |
a substance or drug that contracts body tissue and slows discharge or secretion. |
| blatant |
completely obvious or undisguised, sometimes offensively so. |
| collateral |
property or other security put forward to guarantee repayment of a loan. |
| cyst |
a small pouch within body tissue that is filled with fluid or air. Some cysts are connected with serious disease, but most are not harmful at all. |
| heinous |
extremely wicked or despicable; atrocious. |
| imprecation |
a curse, uttered or thought of. |
| jejune |
lacking interest or liveliness; dull. |
| peripatetic |
walking or traveling around; going from place to place; itinerant. |
| quotidian |
happening every day or once a day. |
| recurve |
to bend or curve back or backward, as the ends of certain shooting bows. |
| shunt |
to turn or move aside or out of the way; divert. |
| supine |
lying with the face upward. |
| symbiosis |
a close association, usually a mutually beneficial relationship, between two dissimilar organisms. |
| unadulterated |
unmixed with or undiluted by additives or extraneous elements; pure; complete. |