| avow |
to assert or affirm. |
| blandishment |
(often plural) flattering or coaxing remarks or stratagems intended to persuade. |
| deter |
to stop or discourage from some action by creating doubt or fear. |
| devolve |
of a duty or the like, to be passed on to someone else. |
| distraught |
mentally or emotionally unbalanced; crazed. |
| epicure |
a person who has cultivated tastes, as in food or wine; connoisseur. |
| extrude |
to force out; expel. |
| figurehead |
a person whose title sounds important but who has no real power. |
| forswear |
to give up or renounce, often with an oath or pledge. |
| fracas |
a noisy disturbance or quarrel. |
| harbinger |
someone or something that signals or foreshadows a later arrival or occurrence; herald; forerunner. |
| nonfeasance |
in law, failure to perform a required duty, as by a public official. |
| rapacious |
capable of capturing and eating live prey; predacious. |
| relict |
a plant, animal, or geological feature that has survived in a considerably changed environment. |
| syntax |
the word order or pattern of word order in a sentence. |