| abut |
to adjoin or press against; be next to; border on. |
| asperity |
harshness or roughness, especially of tone or manner. |
| cachet |
prestige. |
| collateral |
property or other security put forward to guarantee repayment of a loan. |
| curmudgeon |
an irritable or ill-tempered person. |
| entreat |
to beg for something, or to do something. |
| epicene |
sharing the traits of both sexes. |
| garble |
to mix up, distort, or confuse (a message, translation, or the like); cause to be disordered or unintelligible. |
| impute |
to ascribe or attribute to a source or cause. |
| ineluctable |
impossible to be avoided; inescapable. |
| insipid |
having a bland or uninteresting flavor; tasteless. |
| nonfeasance |
in law, failure to perform a required duty, as by a public official. |
| prolix |
wordy and boringly long. |
| relict |
a plant, animal, or geological feature that has survived in a considerably changed environment. |
| stative |
in grammar, of or designating a category of verbs that express state or condition. |