| austerity |
a tightened or stringent economy, as when there are high taxes, frozen wages, and shortages of consumer goods. |
| chary |
not dispensing freely. |
| delectation |
enjoyment; delight; pleasure. |
| equivocal |
having at least two plausible alternative meanings, often intentionally so in order to deceive or avoid commitment; ambiguous. |
| eulogy |
a spoken or written tribute, especially to honor a dead person; high praise; formal commendation. |
| extort |
to extract or obtain (money or the like) by force, threats, or abuse of authority. |
| fulminate |
to vehemently denounce or criticize something. |
| 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. |
| linguistics |
(used with a singular verb) the scientific and historical study of the form and structure of human language. |
| macerate |
to soften (food or the like) by soaking, as in digestion. |
| pleonasm |
a redundant word, phrase, or expression. |
| recurve |
to bend or curve back or backward, as the ends of certain shooting bows. |
| symbiosis |
a close association, usually a mutually beneficial relationship, between two dissimilar organisms. |
| unscathed |
not hurt or harmed; completely uninjured. |
| uxorious |
excessively or foolishly devoted to one's wife, and often thereby submissive to her. |