| adamantine |
firmly decided or fixed; unyielding. |
| assuage |
to make less severe or more bearable; alleviate. |
| demarcate |
to set apart or separate, as if with boundaries. |
| garrulous |
given to talking excessively. |
| harbinger |
someone or something that signals or foreshadows a later arrival or occurrence; herald; forerunner. |
| highbrow |
one who has or pretends to have highly sophisticated intellectual and cultural interests and tastes (often used disparagingly). |
| impugn |
to call into question; challenge or try to discredit. |
| incredulous |
not able to believe something. |
| intersperse |
to place or scatter among other things. |
| lacuna |
a gap or omitted part. |
| lien |
a legal claim on a piece of property when the current owner is in default on a debt or obligation. |
| rebarbative |
tending to irritate or repel; forbidding or unattractive. |
| reprisal |
injury inflicted in retaliation for injury received, as in war; revenge. |
| sere1 |
dried up or withered. |
| topography |
the shape of the earth's surface across an area or region. The topography of an area includes the size and location of hills and dips in the land. |