| agog |
highly excited and full of anticipation. |
| appellation |
a name, title, or other designation. |
| arrant |
complete; unmitigated; downright. |
| baneful |
causing or leading to death, destruction, or ruin; harmful or deadly. |
| consternation |
surprise and alarm, leading to panic, deep disappointment, or total confusion. |
| diurnal |
occurring or active during, or belonging to, the daytime rather than nighttime. |
| equivocal |
having at least two plausible alternative meanings, often intentionally so in order to deceive or avoid commitment; ambiguous. |
| expiation |
the act or the means of making amends, as for a sin or crime. |
| hackneyed |
made trite or commonplace by overuse, as an expression or phrase. |
| harrow |
to go over or break up with a harrow. |
| incursion |
a raid or sudden invasion. |
| 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. |
| ingenuous |
having or showing simplicity and lack of sophistication; artless. |
| insularity |
the condition of being closed to new ideas or outside influences; narrow-mindedness. |
| obviate |
to prevent or eliminate in advance; render unnecessary or irrelevant. |