| abash |
to cause to feel embarrassed, uneasy, or ashamed. |
| academicism |
in the arts, rigid adherence to accepted and traditional forms. |
| baleful |
threatening harm; full of malice; ominous. |
| coir |
the fiber made from coconut husks, used for matting, rope, or the like. |
| deify |
to raise to the rank of a god; consider to be a god. |
| eidetic |
pertaining to or designating the ability to recall images in almost perfect detail. |
| fealty |
faithfulness or loyalty. |
| festoon |
a decorative chain or strip of ribbons, flowers, leaves, or the like, suspended at the ends and hung in a curve. |
| figurehead |
a person whose title sounds important but who has no real power. |
| intransigence |
refusal to alter one's ideas or position in response to the wishes of others. |
| pandemic |
a widespread outbreak of disease that afflicts many people over different continents. |
| parturient |
giving birth or about to give birth; in labor. |
| recidivism |
chronic return to bad habits, especially criminal relapse. |
| revetment |
a facing of stone, masonry, or the like to support or protect a wall, embankment, or mound of earth. |
| uxorious |
excessively or foolishly devoted to one's wife, and often thereby submissive to her. |