| affectation |
falseness or superficiality of appearance or behavior; pretense. |
| aloft |
high above the ground. |
| broach |
to suggest or mention for the first time; bring up. |
| concourse |
a large open space, as in a railway station, where many people pass or gather. |
| gesticulation |
the act or an instance of using hand movements, as to add emphasis or expressiveness to speech. |
| invective |
strongly abusive or denunciatory speech or language. |
| irrevocable |
impossible to take back, undo, or cancel. |
| marquee |
a canopy or a covering like a roof over the entrance to a building. The marquee over a theater shows the title of the current play or film and sometimes the names of the actors. |
| nonchalant |
not showing excitement or anxiety; coolly confident, unflustered, or unworried;casually indifferent. |
| preposterous |
totally unlikely, unbelievable, or senseless; absurd. |
| presentiment |
an intuition or sense of something about to happen; foreboding. |
| rarefy |
to make less dense. |
| redress |
compensation or reparation; amends. |
| stupor |
a state of unconsciousness, insensibility, or torpor. |
| tithe |
an amount of money, produce, or goods equal in value to a tenth of one's income, given or paid as a contribution or tax, especially to a church. |