| advert |
to direct the attention by comment or remark. |
| affidavit |
a written statement that is sworn in the presence of an authorized official to be true, used as legal evidence. |
| benign |
causing little or no harm. |
| blatant |
completely obvious or undisguised, sometimes offensively so. |
| dawdle |
to waste time; be slow. |
| deracinate |
to pull up by or as if by the roots; uproot; isolate; exile. |
| disencumber |
to remove burdens or hindrances from. |
| eidetic |
pertaining to or designating the ability to recall images in almost perfect detail. |
| facsimile |
an exact copy or duplicate of something printed or of a picture. |
| goad |
something that spurs a person to action; stimulus. |
| 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. |
| parlous |
full of dangers or risks; perilous. |
| pronate |
to turn or rotate (the hand or forearm) so that the palm of the hand faces down or backwards. |
| stridulate |
to produce a shrill grating, creaking, or chirping sound by rubbing certain parts of the body together, as some insects do. |