| baleful |
threatening harm; full of malice; ominous. |
| blithe |
indifferent or casual; unconcerned. |
| calumny |
a harmful statement, known by the maker to be false. |
| dearth |
a shortage or scarcity of something; lack. |
| deter |
to stop or discourage from some action by creating doubt or fear. |
| equivocal |
having at least two plausible alternative meanings, often intentionally so in order to deceive or avoid commitment; ambiguous. |
| eulogy |
a spoken or written tribute, especially to honor a dead person; high praise; formal commendation. |
| imprecation |
a curse, uttered or thought of. |
| inanition |
a state of exhaustion caused by a lack of nourishment. |
| incursion |
a raid or sudden invasion. |
| inflection |
change that occurs in the form of words to show a grammatical characteristic such as the tense of a verb, the number of a noun, or the degree of an adjective or adverb. |
| invidious |
tending to arouse feelings of resentment or animosity, especially because of a slight; offensive or discriminatory. |
| peroration |
the concluding part of a speech in which there is a summing up of the principal points. |
| prerogative |
an exclusive right or privilege derived from one's office, position, age, citizenship, birth, or the like. |
| salvo |
the firing of guns or other firearms simultaneously or in succession, especially as a salute. |