| abstruse |
difficult to comprehend or understand; esoteric; arcane. |
| burgeon |
to start to grow; send forth shoots, leaves, buds, or the like (often followed by "out" or "forth"). |
| festoon |
a decorative chain or strip of ribbons, flowers, leaves, or the like, suspended at the ends and hung in a curve. |
| fracas |
a noisy disturbance or quarrel. |
| gloaming |
late evening; dusk; twilight. |
| heinous |
extremely wicked or despicable; atrocious. |
| impinge |
to encroach. |
| 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. |
| lacuna |
a gap or omitted part. |
| panegyric |
a formal speech or piece of writing devoted to publicly praising a person or thing. |
| rapacious |
capable of capturing and eating live prey; predacious. |
| sartorial |
of or pertaining to tailors or tailored clothing, especially men's clothing. |
| scabrous |
characterized by a rough or scaly surface, as the leaf of a plant. |
| shibboleth |
a slogan, phrase, or belief that characterizes or is held devotedly by a group. |
| welter |
to roll about or wallow, as in mud or the open sea. |