| ascertain |
to learn without question; determine. |
| corporeal |
having to do with a physical body; bodily. |
| disaffection |
an absence or loss of good will, faith, or loyalty, especially toward a government, principle, or the like. |
| disheveled |
not neat; messy. |
| disquisition |
a formal, often lengthy, oral or written discussion of a subject. |
| divergence |
the act of separating and moving or leading in different directions. |
| immiscible |
not able to be mixed or blended. |
| ineluctable |
impossible to be avoided; inescapable. |
| jeremiad |
a long complaint about life or one's situation; lamentation. |
| liminal |
of or at the threshold of a physiological or psychological response or change of state. |
| macerate |
to soften (food or the like) by soaking, as in digestion. |
| spurn |
to reject, refuse, or treat with scorn; disdain; despise. |
| surcingle |
a girth or belt that wraps around the body of a horse to secure a saddle, pack, or the like to its back. |
| uxorious |
excessively or foolishly devoted to one's wife, and often thereby submissive to her. |
| voluble |
characterized by a steady flow of words; fluent; talkative. |