| adroit |
skillful with the hands; dextrous. |
| asinine |
silly or willfully stupid. |
| dissonant |
not in harmony or agreement; discordant. |
| entail |
to call for or bring about as a necessary accompaniment; necessarily involve. |
| infatuate |
to cause a foolish and irrational passion or attachment in (someone). |
| intermittent |
alternately stopping and starting with pauses in between. |
| nepotism |
favoritism shown to a near relative, as in preferential hiring or patronage. |
| obituary |
a printed announcement of a person's death, usually including a brief biography and information about funeral arrangements. |
| potent |
having strength; powerful. |
| proclivity |
a natural tendency or inclination; propensity or predisposition. |
| pundit |
an authoritative, or purportedly authoritative, commentator or critic. |
| reverberation |
the continuation of a sound after the source of the sound has been cut off. |
| seclude |
to keep apart from other people or activity. |
| simile |
a figure of speech in which two different things are compared by using the words "like" or "as." "March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb" is an example of a simile. |
| vestige |
a visible trace or sign of something no longer present or existing. |