| arrant |
complete; unmitigated; downright. |
| atavism |
the recurrence or reappearance of a particular trait, style, attitude, or behavior that seemed to have disappeared, or that which has recurred or reappeared after such an absence. |
| caparison |
decorative trappings to cover a horse's saddle or harness. |
| cognomen |
a last name; surname. |
| commodious |
comfortably spacious; roomy. |
| deposition |
a sworn statement, usually in writing, for use as testimony by an absent witness in a court of law. |
| disheveled |
not neat; messy. |
| froward |
unwilling to agree or obey; stubborn; perverse. |
| gnomic |
short and pithy, as an aphorism. |
| indurate |
to make hard in texture; harden. |
| 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. |
| rebarbative |
tending to irritate or repel; forbidding or unattractive. |
| recant |
to withdraw from commitment to (a former position or statement), especially publicly; retract. |
| tamp |
to compress and pack tightly by repeated light taps. |
| 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. |