| apprehensive |
feeling fearful about future events. |
| ascertain |
to learn without question; determine. |
| bellicose |
easily incited to quarrel or fight; belligerent. |
| caparison |
decorative trappings to cover a horse's saddle or harness. |
| emulous |
filled with the desire to equal or surpass. |
| encomium |
a formal expression of praise. |
| facsimile |
an exact copy or duplicate of something printed or of a picture. |
| halcyon |
tranquil; peaceful; calm. |
| imbricate |
overlapping in an even sequence, as roof tiles or fish scales. |
| intersperse |
to place or scatter among other things. |
| malinger |
to pretend illness or injury, especially in order to be excused from duty or work. |
| Saturnalia |
an occasion of unrestrained revelry. |
| solipsism |
the self-centered habit of interpreting and judging all things exclusively according to one's own concepts of meaning and value. |
| trabeated |
using horizontal beams or lintels as supports instead of arches. |
| untoward |
unexpected and unfortunate. |