| agog |
highly excited and full of anticipation. |
| baleful |
threatening harm; full of malice; ominous. |
| barrage |
a great number of things coming one after another very quickly. |
| forswear |
to give up or renounce, often with an oath or pledge. |
| hackneyed |
made trite or commonplace by overuse, as an expression or phrase. |
| halcyon |
tranquil; peaceful; calm. |
| incessant |
never stopping; constant. |
| lachrymose |
weeping, tending to weep readily, or being on the point of tears; tearful. |
| misanthrope |
someone who hates or distrusts humanity. |
| pinchbeck |
false, sham, or counterfeit. |
| pleonasm |
a redundant word, phrase, or expression. |
| pronate |
to turn or rotate (the hand or forearm) so that the palm of the hand faces down or backwards. |
| recondite |
involving profound concepts and complexities; not easily understood. |
| recurve |
to bend or curve back or backward, as the ends of certain shooting bows. |
| stridulate |
to produce a shrill grating, creaking, or chirping sound by rubbing certain parts of the body together, as some insects do. |