| apprehensive |
feeling fearful about future events. |
| deify |
to raise to the rank of a god; consider to be a god. |
| dissemble |
to disguise or hide behind a false semblance; conceal the true nature or state of. |
| Draconian |
(often lower case) harshly cruel or rigorous. |
| froward |
unwilling to agree or obey; stubborn; perverse. |
| glean |
to gather or discover (facts, information, or the like) a little at a time. |
| imprimatur |
any official permission or sanction. |
| 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. |
| malaise |
a state or condition of feeling generally unwell, mentally depressed, sluggish, or uneasy. |
| mirabile dictu |
(Latin) wonderful to say or relate. |
| pliant |
easily flexed; supple. |
| prerogative |
an exclusive right or privilege derived from one's office, position, age, citizenship, birth, or the like. |
| proselytize |
to convert or try actively to convert (others) to one's own beliefs or religion. |
| recidivism |
chronic return to bad habits, especially criminal relapse. |
| unabashed |
not feeling or showing embarrassment, uneasiness, or shame. |