| beatify |
to admire or exalt as superior. |
| distraught |
mentally or emotionally unbalanced; crazed. |
| elide |
to leave out or slur, as a syllable or letter, in pronunciation. |
| epicene |
sharing the traits of both sexes. |
| exegesis |
a critical explanation or interpretive analysis, especially of religious texts. |
| figurehead |
a person whose title sounds important but who has no real power. |
| garble |
to mix up, distort, or confuse (a message, translation, or the like); cause to be disordered or unintelligible. |
| gloaming |
late evening; dusk; twilight. |
| 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. |
| opprobrious |
expressing condemnation or scorn; accusing of shameful behavior. |
| peripatetic |
walking or traveling around; going from place to place; itinerant. |
| pungency |
sharpness or bite in taste or smell. |
| rapacious |
capable of capturing and eating live prey; predacious. |
| repose2 |
to put or place (confidence, hope, or the like) in someone or something. |
| scion |
an offspring or heir. |