| abstruse |
difficult to comprehend or understand; esoteric; arcane. |
| adamantine |
firmly decided or fixed; unyielding. |
| agog |
highly excited and full of anticipation. |
| appellative |
a descriptive name or title, as "Terrible" in "Ivan the Terrible". |
| asterisk |
a sign (*). It is used to show that there is other information on the page that explains the information where the sign is placed. |
| canard |
a deliberately false story or rumor, usually defamatory to someone. |
| deign |
to consider some act to be appropriate or in keeping with one's dignity; condescend. |
| extrinsic |
not inherent or essential; extraneous. |
| harrow |
to go over or break up with a harrow. |
| misanthrope |
someone who hates or distrusts humanity. |
| obscurantism |
a deliberate lack of clarity or directness of expression, as in certain styles of art or literature. |
| pleonasm |
a redundant word, phrase, or expression. |
| seminal |
of critical importance; essential. |
| tort |
in law, any civil rather than criminal harm or injury that violates the implicit duty of each citizen not to harm others, and for which one may bring a civil suit and collect compensation. |
| voluble |
characterized by a steady flow of words; fluent; talkative. |