| affidavit |
a written statement that is sworn in the presence of an authorized official to be true, used as legal evidence. |
| asperity |
harshness or roughness, especially of tone or manner. |
| brash |
rudely self-assertive; bold; impudent. |
| cognoscente |
someone who has exceptional knowledge in a given area, especially of fashion, literature, or the fine arts; connoisseur. |
| flagitious |
viciously or shamefully wicked; infamous. |
| forswear |
to give up or renounce, often with an oath or pledge. |
| garble |
to mix up, distort, or confuse (a message, translation, or the like); cause to be disordered or unintelligible. |
| gird |
to surround, bind, or encircle, as with a belt. |
| gnomic |
short and pithy, as an aphorism. |
| gullible |
believing almost anything; easily tricked. |
| impinge |
to encroach. |
| indulgent |
gratifying, or being inclined to gratify or yield to others' wishes, especially rather than enforcing discipline or strictness. |
| 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. |
| intransigence |
refusal to alter one's ideas or position in response to the wishes of others. |
| peroration |
the concluding part of a speech in which there is a summing up of the principal points. |