| apocryphal |
of dubious authorship or authority. |
| appellative |
a descriptive name or title, as "Terrible" in "Ivan the Terrible". |
| bellicose |
easily incited to quarrel or fight; belligerent. |
| cession |
the act of formally giving up or signing over, as a territory; ceding. |
| elide |
to leave out or slur, as a syllable or letter, in pronunciation. |
| exegesis |
a critical explanation or interpretive analysis, especially of religious texts. |
| exponent |
one that expounds or interprets. |
| homily |
any discourse offering moral advice or admonitions. |
| libertine |
acting without restraint; dissolute; amoral. |
| pandemic |
a widespread outbreak of disease that afflicts many people over different continents. |
| peroration |
the concluding part of a speech in which there is a summing up of the principal points. |
| recondite |
involving profound concepts and complexities; not easily understood. |
| solipsism |
the self-centered habit of interpreting and judging all things exclusively according to one's own concepts of meaning and value. |
| sudorific |
causing or increasing sweat, as a medication. |
| triage |
a system of determining priority of medical treatment, on the basis of need, chances of survival, and the like, to victims on a battlefield or in a hospital emergency ward. |