| abstruse |
difficult to comprehend or understand; esoteric; arcane. |
| apropos |
appropriate; relevant; opportune. |
| assail |
to attack with vigor or violence; assault. |
| calumny |
a harmful statement, known by the maker to be false. |
| conversant |
familiar; acquainted; practiced (usually followed by "with" or "in"). |
| distraught |
mentally or emotionally unbalanced; crazed. |
| espouse |
to take up, hold, or commit oneself to (a cause, idea, or belief); embrace. |
| fulminate |
to vehemently denounce or criticize something. |
| glabrous |
having no hair or fuzz; bald; smooth. |
| parlance |
manner of speaking or writing, especially word choice; vernacular. |
| parvenu |
a person who has suddenly acquired wealth or status, without acquiring the tastes, manners, customs, or the like of his or her new station. |
| precursory |
coming before and serving to indicate what will follow; premonitory. |
| sanguine |
having an optimistic temperament or outlook. |
| sequester |
to remove into protection and isolation; seclude. |
| solecism |
a gross violation of convention in grammar, etiquette, or the like; impropriety. |