| abide |
to put up with; stand. |
| abrogate |
to abolish, repeal, or nullify by authority. |
| caparison |
decorative trappings to cover a horse's saddle or harness. |
| credulous |
disposed to believe, especially on scanty evidence; gullible. |
| inflection |
change that occurs in the form of words to show a grammatical characteristic such as the tense of a verb, the number of a noun, or the degree of an adjective or adverb. |
| mirabile dictu |
(Latin) wonderful to say or relate. |
| omnibus |
concerning or including a large collection of things. |
| pastiche |
a work of visual art, music, or literature that consists mostly of materials and techniques borrowed from other works, sometimes done as an exercise to learn the technique of others. |
| pathos |
a quality in life or art that evokes pity, sadness, or compassion. |
| recessional |
a piece of music that accompanies the exit of participants in a program or religious ceremony. |
| schadenfreude |
(often capitalized) pleasure derived from the misfortune of others. |
| shunt |
to turn or move aside or out of the way; divert. |
| syntax |
the word order or pattern of word order in a sentence. |
| tamp |
to compress and pack tightly by repeated light taps. |
| transpose |
to exchange the position or order of (two things). |