| benign |
causing little or no harm. |
| caparison |
decorative trappings to cover a horse's saddle or harness. |
| debouch |
to advance out of a confined or narrow space such as a canyon into open country. |
| discomfit |
to upset or confuse. |
| fledge |
to grow flight feathers. |
| gloaming |
late evening; dusk; twilight. |
| kismet |
destiny, fortune, or fate. |
| nonfeasance |
in law, failure to perform a required duty, as by a public official. |
| penury |
severe poverty; pennilessness. |
| profligate |
totally given over to immoral and shameful pursuits; dissolute. |
| prolix |
wordy and boringly long. |
| pungency |
sharpness or bite in taste or smell. |
| reprisal |
injury inflicted in retaliation for injury received, as in war; revenge. |
| trabeated |
using horizontal beams or lintels as supports instead of arches. |
| transpose |
to exchange the position or order of (two things). |