| ascertain |
to learn without question; determine. |
| assuage |
to make less severe or more bearable; alleviate. |
| baleful |
threatening harm; full of malice; ominous. |
| epistolary |
established or continued through letters. |
| fledge |
to grow flight feathers. |
| goad |
something that spurs a person to action; stimulus. |
| impediment |
an obstacle or hindrance. |
| incredulous |
not able to believe something. |
| indemnity |
insurance against damage, loss, or liability. |
| oppugn |
to oppose, contradict, criticize, or call into question. |
| raffish |
carelessly unconventional or disreputable, sometimes appealingly so. |
| requite |
to retaliate for; strike back on account of. |
| seminal |
of critical importance; essential. |
| splenetic |
ill-tempered or spiteful. |
| triage |
a system of determining priority of medical treatment, on the basis of need, chances of survival, and the like, to victims on a battlefield or in a hospital emergency ward. |