| abut |
to adjoin or press against; be next to; border on. |
| adamantine |
firmly decided or fixed; unyielding. |
| dawdle |
to waste time; be slow. |
| elide |
to leave out or slur, as a syllable or letter, in pronunciation. |
| engender |
to create or give rise to. |
| entreat |
to beg for something, or to do something. |
| epistolary |
established or continued through letters. |
| festoon |
a decorative chain or strip of ribbons, flowers, leaves, or the like, suspended at the ends and hung in a curve. |
| figurehead |
a person whose title sounds important but who has no real power. |
| imprecation |
a curse, uttered or thought of. |
| lenitive |
mitigating pain, discomfort, or distress; soothing. |
| peroration |
the concluding part of a speech in which there is a summing up of the principal points. |
| pliant |
easily flexed; supple. |
| quadrant |
any of the four parts that result when an area is divided by two lines, real or imaginary, that intersect each other at right angles. |
| stipple |
a method of painting, drawing, or engraving by applying small points, dots, or dabs to a surface. |