| agog |
highly excited and full of anticipation. |
| appellation |
a name, title, or other designation. |
| belabor |
to continue excessive efforts on or excessive discussion of. |
| blatant |
completely obvious or undisguised, sometimes offensively so. |
| castellated |
constructed with turrets and battlements like a castle. |
| corporeal |
having to do with a physical body; bodily. |
| declivity |
a downward or descending slope. |
| discomfit |
to upset or confuse. |
| dissemble |
to disguise or hide behind a false semblance; conceal the true nature or state of. |
| epicure |
a person who has cultivated tastes, as in food or wine; connoisseur. |
| malinger |
to pretend illness or injury, especially in order to be excused from duty or work. |
| otiose |
having no purpose or use; unnecessary or futile. |
| raffish |
carelessly unconventional or disreputable, sometimes appealingly so. |
| solecism |
a gross violation of convention in grammar, etiquette, or the like; impropriety. |
| stridulate |
to produce a shrill grating, creaking, or chirping sound by rubbing certain parts of the body together, as some insects do. |