| agog |
highly excited and full of anticipation. |
| cantankerous |
irritable, stubborn, and quarrelsome. |
| constrict |
to pull or squeeze in; make smaller or more narrow; tighten. |
| demarcate |
to set apart or separate, as if with boundaries. |
| denigrate |
to deny the worth of; sneer at; belittle. |
| descant |
a secondary, usually higher, melody that is played or sung at the same time as the chief melody. |
| doggerel |
trivial, crudely constructed verse. |
| extrude |
to force out; expel. |
| fledge |
to grow flight feathers. |
| hagiography |
an admiring and uncritical biography of anyone. |
| incredulous |
not able to believe something. |
| 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. |
| minatory |
presenting a threat; menacing. |
| precursory |
coming before and serving to indicate what will follow; premonitory. |
| Sabbatarian |
one who observes the Sabbath on Saturday, as Jews and certain Christians. |