| appellative |
a descriptive name or title, as "Terrible" in "Ivan the Terrible". |
| consummate |
of the highest order or degree. |
| deadeye |
an expert shooter. |
| dissimulate |
to hide one's true feelings, intentions, or the like by pretense or hypocrisy. |
| doyen |
the senior or highest-ranking male member of a group. |
| exegesis |
a critical explanation or interpretive analysis, especially of religious texts. |
| garrulous |
given to talking excessively. |
| gloaming |
late evening; dusk; twilight. |
| impromptu |
without advance plan or preparation; spontaneously. |
| intelligentsia |
the elite class of highly learned people within a society, or those who consider themselves part of such a class. |
| jeremiad |
a long complaint about life or one's situation; lamentation. |
| recurve |
to bend or curve back or backward, as the ends of certain shooting bows. |
| reprobate |
an evil or lawless person, often beyond hope of redemption. |
| Saturnalia |
an occasion of unrestrained revelry. |
| syntax |
the word order or pattern of word order in a sentence. |