| abash |
to cause to feel embarrassed, uneasy, or ashamed. |
| centripetal |
forced or moving inward toward a center point or axis. |
| forbear |
to keep or abstain from (an action or utterance). |
| invidious |
tending to arouse feelings of resentment or animosity, especially because of a slight; offensive or discriminatory. |
| lenitive |
mitigating pain, discomfort, or distress; soothing. |
| mirabile dictu |
(Latin) wonderful to say or relate. |
| neologism |
a new word, phrase, or usage. |
| occlude |
to close or obstruct (a passage or opening, one's vision, or the like). |
| pneumatic |
of, using, or concerning air or other gases. |
| rapacious |
capable of capturing and eating live prey; predacious. |
| recidivism |
chronic return to bad habits, especially criminal relapse. |
| sententious |
using or marked by pompous, high-flown moralizing. |
| tort |
in law, any civil rather than criminal harm or injury that violates the implicit duty of each citizen not to harm others, and for which one may bring a civil suit and collect compensation. |
| uxorial |
of, pertaining to, or befitting a wife. |
| uxorious |
excessively or foolishly devoted to one's wife, and often thereby submissive to her. |