| alfresco |
in the open air; outdoors. |
| atonement |
the act of making reparation for a sin, crime, error, or the like. |
| castellated |
constructed with turrets and battlements like a castle. |
| coeval |
coinciding in time of origin or existence; contemporary. |
| fledge |
to grow flight feathers. |
| fulminate |
to vehemently denounce or criticize something. |
| gird |
to surround, bind, or encircle, as with a belt. |
| guttural |
articulated in the back of the mouth; velar. |
| ineluctable |
impossible to be avoided; inescapable. |
| insinuate |
to suggest (something derogatory) subtly and indirectly. |
| intransigence |
refusal to alter one's ideas or position in response to the wishes of others. |
| lanugo |
fine, soft hair, especially that with which a human fetus or newborn is covered. |
| otiose |
having no purpose or use; unnecessary or futile. |
| unscathed |
not hurt or harmed; completely uninjured. |
| uxorious |
excessively or foolishly devoted to one's wife, and often thereby submissive to her. |