| advert |
to direct the attention by comment or remark. |
| amortize |
to deduct (expenditures) by fixed amounts over a period of time. |
| assuage |
to make less severe or more bearable; alleviate. |
| blatant |
completely obvious or undisguised, sometimes offensively so. |
| despoil |
to forcefully take belongings or goods from; plunder. |
| epicene |
sharing the traits of both sexes. |
| indomitable |
too strong to be subdued or discouraged; unconquerable. |
| lenitive |
mitigating pain, discomfort, or distress; soothing. |
| linguistics |
(used with a singular verb) the scientific and historical study of the form and structure of human language. |
| parsimonious |
excessively frugal; stingy. |
| precursory |
coming before and serving to indicate what will follow; premonitory. |
| repine |
to express or feel unhappiness; complain; fret. |
| sententious |
using or marked by pompous, high-flown moralizing. |
| somatic |
of or pertaining to the body itself; corporeal. |
| symbiosis |
a close association, usually a mutually beneficial relationship, between two dissimilar organisms. |