| baneful |
causing or leading to death, destruction, or ruin; harmful or deadly. |
| bereft |
deprived or stripped of something. |
| cachet |
prestige. |
| demarcate |
to set apart or separate, as if with boundaries. |
| disinter |
to dig up or remove from a place of burial; exhume. |
| festoon |
a decorative chain or strip of ribbons, flowers, leaves, or the like, suspended at the ends and hung in a curve. |
| fledge |
to grow flight feathers. |
| froward |
unwilling to agree or obey; stubborn; perverse. |
| imbricate |
overlapping in an even sequence, as roof tiles or fish scales. |
| lanugo |
fine, soft hair, especially that with which a human fetus or newborn is covered. |
| liminal |
of or at the threshold of a physiological or psychological response or change of state. |
| mirabile dictu |
(Latin) wonderful to say or relate. |
| naturalism |
in literature, a method of depicting life that reflects a philosophy of determinism. |
| stanch1 |
to cause (a liquid, especially blood) to stop flowing. |
| unadulterated |
unmixed with or undiluted by additives or extraneous elements; pure; complete. |