| adamantine |
firmly decided or fixed; unyielding. |
| cachet |
prestige. |
| caparison |
decorative trappings to cover a horse's saddle or harness. |
| consternation |
surprise and alarm, leading to panic, deep disappointment, or total confusion. |
| credulous |
disposed to believe, especially on scanty evidence; gullible. |
| dearth |
a shortage or scarcity of something; lack. |
| engender |
to create or give rise to. |
| exegesis |
a critical explanation or interpretive analysis, especially of religious texts. |
| expostulate |
to argue earnestly with someone, usually against an intended action; remonstrate. |
| froward |
unwilling to agree or obey; stubborn; perverse. |
| gnomic |
short and pithy, as an aphorism. |
| oppugn |
to oppose, contradict, criticize, or call into question. |
| pronate |
to turn or rotate (the hand or forearm) so that the palm of the hand faces down or backwards. |
| recondite |
involving profound concepts and complexities; not easily understood. |
| solipsism |
the self-centered habit of interpreting and judging all things exclusively according to one's own concepts of meaning and value. |