| alfresco |
in the open air; outdoors. |
| assail |
to attack with vigor or violence; assault. |
| castellated |
constructed with turrets and battlements like a castle. |
| cognoscente |
someone who has exceptional knowledge in a given area, especially of fashion, literature, or the fine arts; connoisseur. |
| curmudgeon |
an irritable or ill-tempered person. |
| doggerel |
trivial, crudely constructed verse. |
| epistolary |
established or continued through letters. |
| equipoise |
a state of balance or equal weight, importance, or the like; equilibrium. |
| ineluctable |
impossible to be avoided; inescapable. |
| malingerer |
one who pretends to be ill or injured, especially in order to avoid work or duty. |
| preferment |
the act of promoting or being promoted to a higher position or office. |
| recidivism |
chronic return to bad habits, especially criminal relapse. |
| risible |
provoking laughter; laughable or funny. |
| scabrous |
characterized by a rough or scaly surface, as the leaf of a plant. |
| symbiosis |
a close association, usually a mutually beneficial relationship, between two dissimilar organisms. |