| abut |
to adjoin or press against; be next to; border on. |
| apprehensive |
feeling fearful about future events. |
| discountenance |
to embarrass or disconcert. |
| expiation |
the act or the means of making amends, as for a sin or crime. |
| extrinsic |
not inherent or essential; extraneous. |
| forbear |
to keep or abstain from (an action or utterance). |
| garrulous |
given to talking excessively. |
| indistinct |
not clearly perceived or perceiving. |
| jubilate |
to feel joyful; rejoice; exult. |
| mirabile dictu |
(Latin) wonderful to say or relate. |
| penury |
severe poverty; pennilessness. |
| rodomontade |
puffed-up boasting or bravado. |
| sagacious |
possessing or characterized by good judgment and common sense; wise. |
| solecism |
a gross violation of convention in grammar, etiquette, or the like; impropriety. |
| uxorious |
excessively or foolishly devoted to one's wife, and often thereby submissive to her. |