| buttress |
a structure built to give support to the outside of a building or a wall. |
| coy |
artfully shy or retiring; playfully but calculatingly reticent. |
| detachment |
a feeling or condition of being impartial or uninvolved. |
| edict |
an order or decree proclaimed by a ruler or other of high authority. |
| ethereal |
highly refined; unworldly. |
| ingrate |
an ungrateful person. |
| interlude |
a pause, space, or event that intervenes; interval. |
| invocation |
the act or process of calling out to a god, muse, or the like, for help, support, or inspiration. |
| litigious |
inclined to bring lawsuits. |
| misdeed |
an unacceptable, evil, or illegal act. |
| propagate |
to reproduce (offspring) or cause to reproduce. |
| quaff |
to drink, especially deeply and with obvious enjoyment. |
| slake |
to satisfy or relieve (thirst, appetite, lust, or the like) by decreasing the strength or intensity of. |
| subpoena |
in law, a formal written order summoning a witness to give testimony or requiring that specified evidence be submitted. |
| vociferous |
crying out, especially in protest; vocal; clamorous. |