| apprehensive |
feeling fearful about future events. |
| bellicose |
easily incited to quarrel or fight; belligerent. |
| effluvium |
an outflow of usually invisible, foul-smelling vapor or gas. |
| extirpate |
to get rid of completely, as if by pulling up the roots; root out. |
| fixation |
an obsession, especially one that interferes with normal functioning. |
| hagiography |
an admiring and uncritical biography of anyone. |
| intersperse |
to place or scatter among other things. |
| laconic |
using very few words; succinct; terse. |
| oppugn |
to oppose, contradict, criticize, or call into question. |
| pelf |
money or wealth, usually regarded with disapproval or contempt. |
| quondam |
having been in the past; former. |
| recessional |
a piece of music that accompanies the exit of participants in a program or religious ceremony. |
| repine |
to express or feel unhappiness; complain; fret. |
| sartorial |
of or pertaining to tailors or tailored clothing, especially men's clothing. |
| syntax |
the word order or pattern of word order in a sentence. |