| abut |
to adjoin or press against; be next to; border on. |
| antediluvian |
hopelessly old-fashioned; primitive; outdated. |
| apprehensive |
feeling fearful about future events. |
| discomfit |
to upset or confuse. |
| flagitious |
viciously or shamefully wicked; infamous. |
| magnum opus |
a great work of art, literature, or music, especially a particular person's masterpiece. |
| pliant |
easily flexed; supple. |
| profligate |
totally given over to immoral and shameful pursuits; dissolute. |
| refulgent |
shining brilliantly; radiant. |
| sere1 |
dried up or withered. |
| solecism |
a gross violation of convention in grammar, etiquette, or the like; impropriety. |
| splenetic |
ill-tempered or spiteful. |
| tyro |
one who is beginning to learn a business, trade, sport, or the like; novice; neophyte. |
| uxorious |
excessively or foolishly devoted to one's wife, and often thereby submissive to her. |
| welter |
to roll about or wallow, as in mud or the open sea. |