| abide |
to put up with; stand. |
| atonement |
the act of making reparation for a sin, crime, error, or the like. |
| contumacious |
stubbornly disobedient; insubordinate; rebellious. |
| corporeal |
having to do with a physical body; bodily. |
| deracinate |
to pull up by or as if by the roots; uproot; isolate; exile. |
| elide |
to leave out or slur, as a syllable or letter, in pronunciation. |
| facsimile |
an exact copy or duplicate of something printed or of a picture. |
| gnomic |
short and pithy, as an aphorism. |
| hackneyed |
made trite or commonplace by overuse, as an expression or phrase. |
| incursion |
a raid or sudden invasion. |
| libertine |
acting without restraint; dissolute; amoral. |
| nonplus |
to cause (someone) to be unable to think of what to say, do, or decide; perplex; bewilder. |
| obscurantism |
a deliberate lack of clarity or directness of expression, as in certain styles of art or literature. |
| sere1 |
dried up or withered. |
| splenetic |
ill-tempered or spiteful. |