| astute |
keen in understanding and judgment; shrewd. |
| boudoir |
a woman's private sitting room or bedroom. |
| coalesce |
to grow together or unite to form a single body or organization; unify; fuse. |
| consummate |
of the highest order or degree. |
| corollary |
a readily drawn conclusion; deduction or inference. |
| corporeal |
having to do with a physical body; bodily. |
| demotic |
of or relating to the common people; popular. |
| doyen |
the senior or highest-ranking male member of a group. |
| effluvium |
an outflow of usually invisible, foul-smelling vapor or gas. |
| gossamer |
delicately fine, gauzelike, or filmy. |
| phlegmatic |
not given to shows of emotion or interest; slow to excite. |
| relict |
a plant, animal, or geological feature that has survived in a considerably changed environment. |
| reprisal |
injury inflicted in retaliation for injury received, as in war; revenge. |
| sequester |
to remove into protection and isolation; seclude. |
| surcingle |
a girth or belt that wraps around the body of a horse to secure a saddle, pack, or the like to its back. |