| avow |
to assert or affirm. |
| cession |
the act of formally giving up or signing over, as a territory; ceding. |
| collateral |
property or other security put forward to guarantee repayment of a loan. |
| colloquialism |
a word or phrase typically used in conversational, informal, or regional speech or writing, hence sometimes considered inappropriate in formal writing. |
| deadeye |
an expert shooter. |
| despoil |
to forcefully take belongings or goods from; plunder. |
| devolve |
of a duty or the like, to be passed on to someone else. |
| diurnal |
occurring or active during, or belonging to, the daytime rather than nighttime. |
| flout |
to show scorn or contempt for, especially by openly or deliberately disobeying. |
| hackneyed |
made trite or commonplace by overuse, as an expression or phrase. |
| inanition |
a state of exhaustion caused by a lack of nourishment. |
| irrefragable |
impossible to refute or dispute; undeniable. |
| pastiche |
a work of visual art, music, or literature that consists mostly of materials and techniques borrowed from other works, sometimes done as an exercise to learn the technique of others. |
| sequester |
to remove into protection and isolation; seclude. |
| tort |
in law, any civil rather than criminal harm or injury that violates the implicit duty of each citizen not to harm others, and for which one may bring a civil suit and collect compensation. |