| alluvium |
sand, soil, gravel, or the like deposited by moving water, as along a river bed. |
| atonement |
the act of making reparation for a sin, crime, error, or the like. |
| canny |
difficult to fool or take advantage of; shrewd; wary; clever. |
| cession |
the act of formally giving up or signing over, as a territory; ceding. |
| demulcent |
an oily or sticky substance used especially to soothe irritation in mucous membranes. |
| impinge |
to encroach. |
| inculcate |
to cause to accept an idea or value; imbue. |
| 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. |
| lugubrious |
sad or mournful, especially in an exaggerated way; gloomy. |
| lupine2 |
fierce; greedy. |
| pinchbeck |
false, sham, or counterfeit. |
| preferment |
the act of promoting or being promoted to a higher position or office. |
| reprisal |
injury inflicted in retaliation for injury received, as in war; revenge. |
| rodomontade |
puffed-up boasting or bravado. |
| triage |
a system of determining priority of medical treatment, on the basis of need, chances of survival, and the like, to victims on a battlefield or in a hospital emergency ward. |