| adamantine |
firmly decided or fixed; unyielding. |
| assail |
to attack with vigor or violence; assault. |
| bellicose |
easily incited to quarrel or fight; belligerent. |
| bereft |
deprived or stripped of something. |
| dearth |
a shortage or scarcity of something; lack. |
| Draconian |
(often lower case) harshly cruel or rigorous. |
| effluvium |
an outflow of usually invisible, foul-smelling vapor or gas. |
| flummox |
(informal) to confuse or puzzle. |
| imbricate |
overlapping in an even sequence, as roof tiles or fish scales. |
| impromptu |
without advance plan or preparation; spontaneously. |
| ingenuous |
having or showing simplicity and lack of sophistication; artless. |
| invidious |
tending to arouse feelings of resentment or animosity, especially because of a slight; offensive or discriminatory. |
| loll |
to hang down loosely; dangle. |
| topography |
the shape of the earth's surface across an area or region. The topography of an area includes the size and location of hills and dips in the land. |
| triage |
a system of determining priority of medical treatment, on the basis of need, chances of survival, and the like, to victims on a battlefield or in a hospital emergency ward. |