cachet |
prestige. |
deify |
to raise to the rank of a god; consider to be a god. |
deign |
to consider some act to be appropriate or in keeping with one's dignity; condescend. |
dissimulate |
to hide one's true feelings, intentions, or the like by pretense or hypocrisy. |
diurnal |
occurring or active during, or belonging to, the daytime rather than nighttime. |
Draconian |
(often lower case) harshly cruel or rigorous. |
extenuate |
to reduce the magnitude or seriousness of (a fault or offense) by offering partial excuses. |
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. |
maunder |
to speak in an aimless or foolish way; babble. |
quotidian |
happening every day or once a day. |
rebarbative |
tending to irritate or repel; forbidding or unattractive. |
Sabbatarian |
one who observes the Sabbath on Saturday, as Jews and certain Christians. |
sanguine |
having an optimistic temperament or outlook. |
sequester |
to remove into protection and isolation; seclude. |
tort |
in law, any civil rather than criminal harm or injury that violates the implicit duty of each citizen not to harm others, and for which one may bring a civil suit and collect compensation. |