| benign |
causing little or no harm. |
| collateral |
property or other security put forward to guarantee repayment of a loan. |
| frangible |
easy to break; breakable; fragile. |
| harbinger |
someone or something that signals or foreshadows a later arrival or occurrence; herald; forerunner. |
| impute |
to ascribe or attribute to a source or cause. |
| indolence |
the tendency to avoid exertion or effort; laziness. |
| indurate |
to make hard in texture; harden. |
| lupine2 |
fierce; greedy. |
| parlance |
manner of speaking or writing, especially word choice; vernacular. |
| pronate |
to turn or rotate (the hand or forearm) so that the palm of the hand faces down or backwards. |
| pungent |
sharp and strong in taste or smell. |
| sanctimony |
a pretense of righteousness or piety; feigned devotion or holiness. |
| supine |
lying with the face upward. |
| sylph |
a slender, graceful woman or girl. |
| voluble |
characterized by a steady flow of words; fluent; talkative. |