| affidavit |
a written statement that is sworn in the presence of an authorized official to be true, used as legal evidence. |
| assail |
to attack with vigor or violence; assault. |
| Draconian |
(often lower case) harshly cruel or rigorous. |
| froward |
unwilling to agree or obey; stubborn; perverse. |
| hypocrisy |
the practice or an instance of stating or pretending to hold beliefs or principles that one does not actually live by; insincerity. |
| innocuous |
not capable of causing damage; harmless. |
| knurled |
having small ridges. |
| lachrymose |
weeping, tending to weep readily, or being on the point of tears; tearful. |
| pleonasm |
a redundant word, phrase, or expression. |
| pronate |
to turn or rotate (the hand or forearm) so that the palm of the hand faces down or backwards. |
| salvo |
the firing of guns or other firearms simultaneously or in succession, especially as a salute. |
| solecism |
a gross violation of convention in grammar, etiquette, or the like; impropriety. |
| somatic |
of or pertaining to the body itself; corporeal. |
| 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. |
| vouchsafe |
to grant or give with condescension or as a special favor. |