| ardor |
very strong feelings; passion; fervor. |
| asinine |
silly or willfully stupid. |
| augment |
to make greater in size or amount; increase. |
| courier |
someone who delivers messages, packages, and the like, especially for a government, military organization, or business. |
| defunct |
no longer in existence or use; dead; extinct. |
| egotism |
excessive self-promotion; boastfulness or conceitedness. |
| gauche |
deficient in manners or other conventions of social behavior; boorish; crude. |
| increment |
a rise or addition in number or value, often small. |
| invertebrate |
without a backbone |
| limbo1 |
(often capitalized) in theology, a place neither in heaven nor hell for souls neither saved nor condemned, such as those of unbaptized infants. |
| proliferate |
to spread or increase quickly. |
| rhapsody |
a musical composition having an irregular form suggesting improvisation. |
| risqué |
very close to indecency or indelicacy; sexually suggestive; racy. |
| scintillate |
to send out sparks. |
| striate |
to mark with stripes or furrows. |