| appellation |
a name, title, or other designation. |
| baneful |
causing or leading to death, destruction, or ruin; harmful or deadly. |
| blatant |
completely obvious or undisguised, sometimes offensively so. |
| conclave |
a secret, private, or confidential meeting or gathering. |
| condone |
to pardon, disregard, or overlook voluntarily or without condemning. |
| glabrous |
having no hair or fuzz; bald; smooth. |
| idyllic |
charmingly simple and natural, as a scene or experience; suggestive of peaceful countryside. |
| intransigence |
refusal to alter one's ideas or position in response to the wishes of others. |
| oligarchy |
a government or state in which only a relatively few people or members of a family have real power. |
| parsimonious |
excessively frugal; stingy. |
| pronate |
to turn or rotate (the hand or forearm) so that the palm of the hand faces down or backwards. |
| salvo |
the firing of guns or other firearms simultaneously or in succession, especially as a salute. |
| Saturnalia |
an occasion of unrestrained revelry. |
| stickler |
one who must observe or conform to something (usually followed by "for"). |
| tort |
in law, any civil rather than criminal harm or injury that violates the implicit duty of each citizen not to harm others, and for which one may bring a civil suit and collect compensation. |