| adept |
having great skill or ability. |
| artisan |
a person skilled in making things, especially by using the hands. People such as those who make furniture, quilts, or other crafts are artisans. |
| autopsy |
a medical examination of a dead body to find the cause of death. |
| defunct |
no longer in existence or use; dead; extinct. |
| finicky |
exceptionally fussy or hard to satisfy. |
| grandiloquent |
speaking or expressed in a pretentious, pompous, or excessively ornate fashion. |
| importune |
to pester with insistent demands or requests. |
| impregnate |
to make (a female animal or human) pregnant, or to make (an egg) fertile. |
| largess |
liberality in giving, especially money, and often with an implication of the giver's superiority. |
| malleable |
capable of being shaped, as by hammering or rolling. |
| pique |
to cause (a feeling or action) to be aroused or incited. |
| socialite |
one who is prominent in fashionable social circles. |
| tantamount |
equal to or the same as; equivalent. |
| temperamental |
changeable as to mood, nature, operability, or the like; unpredictable. |
| workaday |
ordinary; mundane; everyday. |