| alfresco |
in the open air; outdoors. |
| amity |
friendly and peaceful relations; good will. |
| apprise |
to inform (often followed by "of"). |
| baleful |
threatening harm; full of malice; ominous. |
| cyst |
a small pouch within body tissue that is filled with fluid or air. Some cysts are connected with serious disease, but most are not harmful at all. |
| demotic |
of or relating to the common people; popular. |
| gullible |
believing almost anything; easily tricked. |
| inchoate |
partially or imperfectly developed. |
| 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. |
| insipid |
having a bland or uninteresting flavor; tasteless. |
| macerate |
to soften (food or the like) by soaking, as in digestion. |
| oppugn |
to oppose, contradict, criticize, or call into question. |
| peremptory |
not permitting refusal or disobedience. |
| putrefaction |
the act or process of rotting or decomposing. |
| stanch1 |
to cause (a liquid, especially blood) to stop flowing. |