| askance |
with distrust or suspicion. |
| boorish |
rude; ill-mannered; crude. |
| cession |
the act of formally giving up or signing over, as a territory; ceding. |
| doggerel |
trivial, crudely constructed verse. |
| engender |
to create or give rise to. |
| flange |
a collar or rim that projects from a pipe, housing, or the like to provide strength, stability, or a place for attaching other parts. |
| imprecation |
a curse, uttered or thought of. |
| 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. |
| insinuate |
to suggest (something derogatory) subtly and indirectly. |
| neologism |
a new word, phrase, or usage. |
| occlude |
to close or obstruct (a passage or opening, one's vision, or the like). |
| parsimonious |
excessively frugal; stingy. |
| peroration |
the concluding part of a speech in which there is a summing up of the principal points. |
| recrudesce |
to become active again or break out anew, as a disease or harmful condition. |
| scabrous |
characterized by a rough or scaly surface, as the leaf of a plant. |