| apocryphal |
of dubious authorship or authority. |
| barrage |
a great number of things coming one after another very quickly. |
| brash |
rudely self-assertive; bold; impudent. |
| condone |
to pardon, disregard, or overlook voluntarily or without condemning. |
| deadeye |
an expert shooter. |
| disabuse |
to free (a person) from misconception or deception; set straight. |
| epistolary |
established or continued through letters. |
| 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. |
| jeremiad |
a long complaint about life or one's situation; lamentation. |
| lacuna |
a gap or omitted part. |
| lupine2 |
fierce; greedy. |
| mahatma |
(sometimes capitalized) in Buddhism and theosophy, any of a class of persons revered for their wisdom and love of humanity. |
| minatory |
presenting a threat; menacing. |
| modus operandi |
a method of accomplishing something; way of working. |
| sententious |
using or marked by pompous, high-flown moralizing. |