| atonement |
the act of making reparation for a sin, crime, error, or the like. |
| bellicose |
easily incited to quarrel or fight; belligerent. |
| caparison |
decorative trappings to cover a horse's saddle or harness. |
| contumacious |
stubbornly disobedient; insubordinate; rebellious. |
| dissimulate |
to hide one's true feelings, intentions, or the like by pretense or hypocrisy. |
| gird |
to surround, bind, or encircle, as with a belt. |
| gnomic |
short and pithy, as an aphorism. |
| hagiography |
an admiring and uncritical biography of anyone. |
| highbrow |
one who has or pretends to have highly sophisticated intellectual and cultural interests and tastes (often used disparagingly). |
| inanition |
a state of exhaustion caused by a lack of nourishment. |
| laconic |
using very few words; succinct; terse. |
| rebarbative |
tending to irritate or repel; forbidding or unattractive. |
| refulgent |
shining brilliantly; radiant. |
| solipsism |
the self-centered habit of interpreting and judging all things exclusively according to one's own concepts of meaning and value. |
| trabeated |
using horizontal beams or lintels as supports instead of arches. |