| beatify |
to admire or exalt as superior. |
| conversant |
familiar; acquainted; practiced (usually followed by "with" or "in"). |
| Draconian |
(often lower case) harshly cruel or rigorous. |
| epicure |
a person who has cultivated tastes, as in food or wine; connoisseur. |
| gloaming |
late evening; dusk; twilight. |
| inflection |
change that occurs in the form of words to show a grammatical characteristic such as the tense of a verb, the number of a noun, or the degree of an adjective or adverb. |
| ingenuous |
having or showing simplicity and lack of sophistication; artless. |
| irrefragable |
impossible to refute or dispute; undeniable. |
| neophyte |
a beginner or novice at any activity. |
| nonfeasance |
in law, failure to perform a required duty, as by a public official. |
| obfuscate |
to make (something) seem or be difficult to understand; obscure or darken. |
| ostentation |
a showy display to impress others. |
| panegyric |
a formal speech or piece of writing devoted to publicly praising a person or thing. |
| sequester |
to remove into protection and isolation; seclude. |
| sotto voce |
in a low voice or undertone, so as not to be overheard; softly (often used as a musical direction). |