| abash |
to cause to feel embarrassed, uneasy, or ashamed. |
| benign |
causing little or no harm. |
| burgeon |
to start to grow; send forth shoots, leaves, buds, or the like (often followed by "out" or "forth"). |
| coir |
the fiber made from coconut husks, used for matting, rope, or the like. |
| debouch |
to advance out of a confined or narrow space such as a canyon into open country. |
| demulcent |
an oily or sticky substance used especially to soothe irritation in mucous membranes. |
| distraught |
mentally or emotionally unbalanced; crazed. |
| doyen |
the senior or highest-ranking male member of a group. |
| harbinger |
someone or something that signals or foreshadows a later arrival or occurrence; herald; forerunner. |
| humanism |
a doctrine or mode of thought that gives highest importance to human dignity, values, potentials, and achievements. |
| immaculate |
not dirty; completely clean. |
| inadvertent |
not planned or intended; unintentional. |
| 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. |
| neophyte |
a beginner or novice at any activity. |
| opiate |
something that induces relaxation, calm, or stupor. |