| consecrate |
to commit or devote to some goal or service. |
| dais |
a raised platform for speakers or the seating of special guests. |
| detriment |
harm, injury, or loss. |
| enrapture |
to cause to be in rapture or to be ecstatically joyful. |
| epigram |
a short, pithy, often paradoxical sentence. |
| impassable |
impossible to go past, through, over, or around. |
| imponderable |
unable to be evaluated or calculated accurately. |
| maternity |
the state of being a mother; motherhood. |
| mendacity |
a tendency to lie; untruthfulness. |
| negligible |
so small or unimportant as to be of no account; trifling or insignificant. |
| nondescript |
having no individual distinctiveness; lacking in notable features. |
| novice |
a person with little or no experience at a particular job or activity. |
| pique |
to cause (a feeling or action) to be aroused or incited. |
| preventable |
having the possibility of being prevented; capable of being stopped or kept from happening. |
| shoddy |
of low quality; poorly made or carried out. |