| acclivity |
a rising slope. |
| affidavit |
a written statement that is sworn in the presence of an authorized official to be true, used as legal evidence. |
| apropos |
appropriate; relevant; opportune. |
| augury |
the art or practice or an instance of predicting the future or obtaining hidden knowledge by interpreting omens. |
| credulous |
disposed to believe, especially on scanty evidence; gullible. |
| doggerel |
trivial, crudely constructed verse. |
| gullible |
believing almost anything; easily tricked. |
| hirsute |
covered with hair or stiff hairs; hairy or shaggy. |
| imbricate |
overlapping in an even sequence, as roof tiles or fish scales. |
| immiscible |
not able to be mixed or blended. |
| incessant |
never stopping; constant. |
| 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. |
| neologism |
a new word, phrase, or usage. |
| phlegmatic |
not given to shows of emotion or interest; slow to excite. |
| tyro |
one who is beginning to learn a business, trade, sport, or the like; novice; neophyte. |