| affidavit |
a written statement that is sworn in the presence of an authorized official to be true, used as legal evidence. |
| aleatory |
pertaining to or depending on luck, chance, or contingency. |
| apocryphal |
of dubious authorship or authority. |
| apprehensive |
feeling fearful about future events. |
| atonement |
the act of making reparation for a sin, crime, error, or the like. |
| centripetal |
forced or moving inward toward a center point or axis. |
| dilatory |
used to cause a delay. |
| ingenuous |
having or showing simplicity and lack of sophistication; artless. |
| obscurantism |
a deliberate lack of clarity or directness of expression, as in certain styles of art or literature. |
| peroration |
the concluding part of a speech in which there is a summing up of the principal points. |
| quondam |
having been in the past; former. |
| recrudesce |
to become active again or break out anew, as a disease or harmful condition. |
| sanguine |
having an optimistic temperament or outlook. |
| supine |
lying with the face upward. |
| syntax |
the word order or pattern of word order in a sentence. |