| blandishment |
(often plural) flattering or coaxing remarks or stratagems intended to persuade. |
| coeval |
coinciding in time of origin or existence; contemporary. |
| discomfit |
to upset or confuse. |
| engender |
to create or give rise to. |
| epistolary |
established or continued through letters. |
| extort |
to extract or obtain (money or the like) by force, threats, or abuse of authority. |
| feckless |
weak or incompetent; ineffective. |
| 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. |
| insularity |
the condition of being closed to new ideas or outside influences; narrow-mindedness. |
| intelligentsia |
the elite class of highly learned people within a society, or those who consider themselves part of such a class. |
| ligature |
a band or tie. |
| ostentation |
a showy display to impress others. |
| salvo |
the firing of guns or other firearms simultaneously or in succession, especially as a salute. |
| unadulterated |
unmixed with or undiluted by additives or extraneous elements; pure; complete. |
| untoward |
unexpected and unfortunate. |