| avow |
to assert or affirm. |
| bereft |
deprived or stripped of something. |
| boorish |
rude; ill-mannered; crude. |
| coeval |
coinciding in time of origin or existence; contemporary. |
| curmudgeon |
an irritable or ill-tempered person. |
| gnomic |
short and pithy, as an aphorism. |
| goad |
something that spurs a person to action; stimulus. |
| lien |
a legal claim on a piece of property when the current owner is in default on a debt or obligation. |
| louche |
of questionable decency, morality, or taste; shady; disreputable. |
| mendicant |
living on charity; begging. |
| omnibus |
concerning or including a large collection of things. |
| quotidian |
happening every day or once a day. |
| Saturnalia |
an occasion of unrestrained revelry. |
| sere1 |
dried up or withered. |
| shunt |
to turn or move aside or out of the way; divert. |