| apprehensive |
feeling fearful about future events. |
| askance |
with distrust or suspicion. |
| assail |
to attack with vigor or violence; assault. |
| berate |
to reproach or scold severely. |
| blatant |
completely obvious or undisguised, sometimes offensively so. |
| collateral |
property or other security put forward to guarantee repayment of a loan. |
| colloquialism |
a word or phrase typically used in conversational, informal, or regional speech or writing, hence sometimes considered inappropriate in formal writing. |
| Draconian |
(often lower case) harshly cruel or rigorous. |
| feckless |
weak or incompetent; ineffective. |
| immiscible |
not able to be mixed or blended. |
| jejune |
lacking interest or liveliness; dull. |
| lugubrious |
sad or mournful, especially in an exaggerated way; gloomy. |
| perquisite |
a payment or benefit in addition to the wages or salary associated with a position. |
| recurve |
to bend or curve back or backward, as the ends of certain shooting bows. |
| stative |
in grammar, of or designating a category of verbs that express state or condition. |