| appurtenance |
(plural) equipment or instruments used for a given purpose; gear. |
| boudoir |
a woman's private sitting room or bedroom. |
| cognomen |
a last name; surname. |
| deign |
to consider some act to be appropriate or in keeping with one's dignity; condescend. |
| epicure |
a person who has cultivated tastes, as in food or wine; connoisseur. |
| epigraph |
a pertinent quotation or motto, especially found at the beginning of a literary work or of a chapter. |
| epistolary |
established or continued through letters. |
| expound |
to discuss or explain in detail (usually followed by "on" or "upon"). |
| immiscible |
not able to be mixed or blended. |
| indomitable |
too strong to be subdued or discouraged; unconquerable. |
| indurate |
to make hard in texture; harden. |
| inflection |
change that occurs in the form of words to show a grammatical characteristic such as the tense of a verb, the number of a noun, or the degree of an adjective or adverb. |
| magnum opus |
a great work of art, literature, or music, especially a particular person's masterpiece. |
| neologism |
a new word, phrase, or usage. |
| sartorial |
of or pertaining to tailors or tailored clothing, especially men's clothing. |