| baleful |
threatening harm; full of malice; ominous. |
| beatify |
to admire or exalt as superior. |
| blatant |
completely obvious or undisguised, sometimes offensively so. |
| disheveled |
not neat; messy. |
| equipoise |
a state of balance or equal weight, importance, or the like; equilibrium. |
| immaculate |
not dirty; completely clean. |
| incumbent |
currently holding an office or position. |
| indurate |
to make hard in texture; harden. |
| mendicant |
living on charity; begging. |
| nonplus |
to cause (someone) to be unable to think of what to say, do, or decide; perplex; bewilder. |
| parsimonious |
excessively frugal; stingy. |
| precursory |
coming before and serving to indicate what will follow; premonitory. |
| reprisal |
injury inflicted in retaliation for injury received, as in war; revenge. |
| sylph |
a slender, graceful woman or girl. |
| vitiate |
to harm the quality of; mar; spoil. |