| apprehensive |
feeling fearful about future events. |
| apropos |
appropriate; relevant; opportune. |
| attenuate |
to cause to be thin, rarefied, or fine. |
| cognoscente |
someone who has exceptional knowledge in a given area, especially of fashion, literature, or the fine arts; connoisseur. |
| commodious |
comfortably spacious; roomy. |
| consternation |
surprise and alarm, leading to panic, deep disappointment, or total confusion. |
| decedent |
in law, one who has died. |
| emulous |
filled with the desire to equal or surpass. |
| flange |
a collar or rim that projects from a pipe, housing, or the like to provide strength, stability, or a place for attaching other parts. |
| hagiography |
an admiring and uncritical biography of anyone. |
| inadvertent |
not planned or intended; unintentional. |
| sanguine |
having an optimistic temperament or outlook. |
| sententious |
using or marked by pompous, high-flown moralizing. |
| shunt |
to turn or move aside or out of the way; divert. |
| stately |
dignified. |