| chasten |
to awaken conscience or bring about moral improvement through suffering, discipline, or punishment. |
| diffident |
unsure of oneself; shy; demure. |
| digress |
to stray from the main topic; ramble. |
| enfranchise |
to give the rights of a citizen to, especially the right to vote. |
| feign |
to pretend or fake; put on a false show of. |
| frond |
a long leaf with many small divisions. Ferns and palm trees have fronds. |
| gesticulation |
the act or an instance of using hand movements, as to add emphasis or expressiveness to speech. |
| interlude |
a pause, space, or event that intervenes; interval. |
| inveterate |
persisting in a habit, action, feeling, or the like. |
| reconcile |
to heal differences and restore a good relationship between. |
| rescind |
to take back or make invalid; revoke. |
| ruffian |
one who is tough and violent; bully; thug. |
| scavenger |
an animal that finds and eats dead animals or rotting plants; a person who finds things that others no longer want. |
| simile |
a figure of speech in which two different things are compared by using the words "like" or "as." "March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb" is an example of a simile. |
| visage |
the face of a person, statue, or the like, especially in regard to its appearance or expression. |