| abstruse |
difficult to comprehend or understand; esoteric; arcane. |
| alfresco |
in the open air; outdoors. |
| assail |
to attack with vigor or violence; assault. |
| descry |
to see or make out, especially something obscured or at a distance. |
| distraught |
mentally or emotionally unbalanced; crazed. |
| forbear |
to keep or abstain from (an action or utterance). |
| inchoate |
partially or imperfectly developed. |
| malfeasance |
an illegal act or wrongdoing, especially by a public official. |
| panegyric |
a formal speech or piece of writing devoted to publicly praising a person or thing. |
| pedagogy |
the act, process, or profession of teaching. |
| rebarbative |
tending to irritate or repel; forbidding or unattractive. |
| recrudesce |
to become active again or break out anew, as a disease or harmful condition. |
| regicide |
the murderer of a king. |
| savor |
to give an impression; hint (usually followed by "of"). |
| triage |
a system of determining priority of medical treatment, on the basis of need, chances of survival, and the like, to victims on a battlefield or in a hospital emergency ward. |