| ascertain |
to learn without question; determine. |
| assail |
to attack with vigor or violence; assault. |
| calumny |
a harmful statement, known by the maker to be false. |
| concur |
to share the same opinion; agree. |
| fixation |
an obsession, especially one that interferes with normal functioning. |
| imprimatur |
any official permission or sanction. |
| indolence |
the tendency to avoid exertion or effort; laziness. |
| limn |
to paint or draw. |
| 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. |
| peripatetic |
walking or traveling around; going from place to place; itinerant. |
| pliant |
easily flexed; supple. |
| pungency |
sharpness or bite in taste or smell. |
| recrudesce |
to become active again or break out anew, as a disease or harmful condition. |
| requite |
to retaliate for; strike back on account of. |
| syntax |
the word order or pattern of word order in a sentence. |