| ambulatory |
able to walk about. |
| buttress |
a structure built to give support to the outside of a building or a wall. |
| cognate |
having a common origin, as languages. |
| exigency |
a condition of urgency. |
| figurative |
not meant to be interpreted in a literal way; metaphorical. |
| gaseous |
in the form of or resembling a gas. |
| hermetic |
preventing or sealed to prevent the influx or escape of air; airtight. |
| implausible |
hard to believe or credit. |
| invective |
strongly abusive or denunciatory speech or language. |
| nuance |
a subtle quality or difference in tone, meaning, color, or the like; shade. |
| proliferate |
to spread or increase quickly. |
| remonstrance |
the act or an instance of protesting or objecting. |
| retrograde |
moving or tending to move in a backward direction; retreating. |
| seclude |
to keep apart from other people or activity. |
| theorem |
a proposition or idea that can be proven by other formulas or propositions in mathematics, or deduced from accepted premises or assumptions in logic. |