| apotheosis |
a perfect or ideal example; epitome. |
| bereft |
deprived or stripped of something. |
| cloture |
in U.S. parliamentary procedure, a method of ending debate and causing an immediate vote on the matter being discussed. |
| condone |
to pardon, disregard, or overlook voluntarily or without condemning. |
| disquisition |
a formal, often lengthy, oral or written discussion of a subject. |
| gird |
to surround, bind, or encircle, as with a belt. |
| harrow |
to go over or break up with a harrow. |
| impermeable |
not permitting passage or penetration. |
| 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. |
| intransigence |
refusal to alter one's ideas or position in response to the wishes of others. |
| jeremiad |
a long complaint about life or one's situation; lamentation. |
| revetment |
a facing of stone, masonry, or the like to support or protect a wall, embankment, or mound of earth. |
| tort |
in law, any civil rather than criminal harm or injury that violates the implicit duty of each citizen not to harm others, and for which one may bring a civil suit and collect compensation. |
| veneration |
a feeling of great respect; awe; reverence. |
| vitiate |
to harm the quality of; mar; spoil. |