| assuage |
to make less severe or more bearable; alleviate. |
| boorish |
rude; ill-mannered; crude. |
| coalesce |
to grow together or unite to form a single body or organization; unify; fuse. |
| derision |
mockery or ridicule. |
| effrontery |
shameless impudence; insolence. |
| flagitious |
viciously or shamefully wicked; infamous. |
| fledge |
to grow flight feathers. |
| frangible |
easy to break; breakable; fragile. |
| impute |
to ascribe or attribute to a source or cause. |
| 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. |
| malaise |
a state or condition of feeling generally unwell, mentally depressed, sluggish, or uneasy. |
| misanthrope |
someone who hates or distrusts humanity. |
| neophyte |
a beginner or novice at any activity. |
| peremptory |
not permitting refusal or disobedience. |
| sequester |
to remove into protection and isolation; seclude. |