| bane |
something or someone that causes ruin or great trouble. |
| biennial |
happening every second year. |
| brandish |
to wave or shake (something such as a weapon) in a threatening or agitated manner. |
| compassion |
a feeling of sharing another's suffering that leads to a desire to help. |
| contortion |
a straining or twisting by the intellect; mental gymnastics. |
| discrete |
separate and distinct. |
| grandiloquence |
speech that is pretentious, pompous, or excessively mannered. |
| histrionic |
done in a theatrical, emotional, or affected manner; overly dramatic. |
| ingrate |
an ungrateful person. |
| interim |
the interval of time between two events. |
| malediction |
the expression of a wish that evil or harm come to someone; curse. |
| oratory1 |
the art of public speaking. |
| protagonist |
the leading character in a literary work. |
| saturate |
to fill or soak completely. |
| tangential |
barely connected to or touching a subject. |