| alfresco |
in the open air; outdoors. |
| blandishment |
(often plural) flattering or coaxing remarks or stratagems intended to persuade. |
| canard |
a deliberately false story or rumor, usually defamatory to someone. |
| descry |
to see or make out, especially something obscured or at a distance. |
| facetious |
not serious; humorous or frivolous. |
| fulminate |
to vehemently denounce or criticize something. |
| humanism |
a doctrine or mode of thought that gives highest importance to human dignity, values, potentials, and achievements. |
| impinge |
to encroach. |
| incredulous |
not able to believe something. |
| lanugo |
fine, soft hair, especially that with which a human fetus or newborn is covered. |
| limn |
to paint or draw. |
| mirabile dictu |
(Latin) wonderful to say or relate. |
| requite |
to retaliate for; strike back on account of. |
| transpose |
to exchange the position or order of (two things). |
| tyro |
one who is beginning to learn a business, trade, sport, or the like; novice; neophyte. |