| abide |
to put up with; stand. |
| apocryphal |
of dubious authorship or authority. |
| discountenance |
to embarrass or disconcert. |
| eidetic |
pertaining to or designating the ability to recall images in almost perfect detail. |
| extort |
to extract or obtain (money or the like) by force, threats, or abuse of authority. |
| garble |
to mix up, distort, or confuse (a message, translation, or the like); cause to be disordered or unintelligible. |
| glabrous |
having no hair or fuzz; bald; smooth. |
| harbinger |
someone or something that signals or foreshadows a later arrival or occurrence; herald; forerunner. |
| obtrusive |
aggressive and self-assertive, or inclined to be so. |
| occlude |
to close or obstruct (a passage or opening, one's vision, or the like). |
| recant |
to withdraw from commitment to (a former position or statement), especially publicly; retract. |
| reprise |
repetition of a musical phrase or theme in an identical or slightly altered way. |
| solipsism |
the self-centered habit of interpreting and judging all things exclusively according to one's own concepts of meaning and value. |
| stately |
dignified. |
| tyro |
one who is beginning to learn a business, trade, sport, or the like; novice; neophyte. |