| appose |
to place next to or side by side; juxtapose. |
| apropos |
appropriate; relevant; opportune. |
| astute |
keen in understanding and judgment; shrewd. |
| baleful |
threatening harm; full of malice; ominous. |
| calumny |
a harmful statement, known by the maker to be false. |
| effrontery |
shameless impudence; insolence. |
| extrinsic |
not inherent or essential; extraneous. |
| humanism |
a doctrine or mode of thought that gives highest importance to human dignity, values, potentials, and achievements. |
| limn |
to paint or draw. |
| loll |
to hang down loosely; dangle. |
| parvenu |
a person who has suddenly acquired wealth or status, without acquiring the tastes, manners, customs, or the like of his or her new station. |
| periphrasis |
an indirect or roundabout way of phrasing something; circumlocution. |
| revetment |
a facing of stone, masonry, or the like to support or protect a wall, embankment, or mound of earth. |
| sententious |
using or marked by pompous, high-flown moralizing. |
| stative |
in grammar, of or designating a category of verbs that express state or condition. |