| alluvium |
sand, soil, gravel, or the like deposited by moving water, as along a river bed. |
| animus |
a feeling or attitude of enmity. |
| apprehensive |
feeling fearful about future events. |
| baneful |
causing or leading to death, destruction, or ruin; harmful or deadly. |
| cyst |
a small pouch within body tissue that is filled with fluid or air. Some cysts are connected with serious disease, but most are not harmful at all. |
| deign |
to consider some act to be appropriate or in keeping with one's dignity; condescend. |
| disheveled |
not neat; messy. |
| flagitious |
viciously or shamefully wicked; infamous. |
| laconic |
using very few words; succinct; terse. |
| maverick |
a person who thinks and behaves independently, especially one who refuses to adhere to the orthodoxy of the group to which he or she belongs. |
| oppugn |
to oppose, contradict, criticize, or call into question. |
| reprise |
repetition of a musical phrase or theme in an identical or slightly altered way. |
| sere1 |
dried up or withered. |
| sylph |
a slender, graceful woman or girl. |
| truculent |
extremely hostile or belligerent; inclined to fight. |