| alfresco |
in the open air; outdoors. |
| assuage |
to make less severe or more bearable; alleviate. |
| bilge |
the rounded part of a ship's hull between the bottom and the sides. |
| cognoscente |
someone who has exceptional knowledge in a given area, especially of fashion, literature, or the fine arts; connoisseur. |
| credulous |
disposed to believe, especially on scanty evidence; gullible. |
| disingenuous |
not candid or sincere. |
| exponent |
one that expounds or interprets. |
| extenuate |
to reduce the magnitude or seriousness of (a fault or offense) by offering partial excuses. |
| germane |
having relevance to a given matter; pertinent; significant. |
| gnomic |
short and pithy, as an aphorism. |
| inanition |
a state of exhaustion caused by a lack of nourishment. |
| maverick |
a person who thinks and behaves independently, especially one who refuses to adhere to the orthodoxy of the group to which he or she belongs. |
| obfuscate |
to make (something) seem or be difficult to understand; obscure or darken. |
| peroration |
the concluding part of a speech in which there is a summing up of the principal points. |
| raffish |
carelessly unconventional or disreputable, sometimes appealingly so. |