| asperity |
harshness or roughness, especially of tone or manner. |
| attenuate |
to cause to be thin, rarefied, or fine. |
| distraught |
mentally or emotionally unbalanced; crazed. |
| facsimile |
an exact copy or duplicate of something printed or of a picture. |
| fledge |
to grow flight feathers. |
| glabrous |
having no hair or fuzz; bald; smooth. |
| imbroglio |
a difficult, confused, or complicated situation, often involving a misunderstanding, disagreement, or quarrel. |
| insouciant |
having no cares or anxieties; light-hearted; carefree. |
| nonpareil |
a person or thing whose excellence is unequaled; paragon. |
| occlude |
to close or obstruct (a passage or opening, one's vision, or the like). |
| parturient |
giving birth or about to give birth; in labor. |
| raffish |
carelessly unconventional or disreputable, sometimes appealingly so. |
| recurve |
to bend or curve back or backward, as the ends of certain shooting bows. |
| tort |
in law, any civil rather than criminal harm or injury that violates the implicit duty of each citizen not to harm others, and for which one may bring a civil suit and collect compensation. |
| travesty |
something so grotesque or inferior as to seem a parody. |