| avow |
to assert or affirm. |
| berate |
to reproach or scold severely. |
| brash |
rudely self-assertive; bold; impudent. |
| cachet |
prestige. |
| conversant |
familiar; acquainted; practiced (usually followed by "with" or "in"). |
| demotic |
of or relating to the common people; popular. |
| descry |
to see or make out, especially something obscured or at a distance. |
| distraught |
mentally or emotionally unbalanced; crazed. |
| eidetic |
pertaining to or designating the ability to recall images in almost perfect detail. |
| gloaming |
late evening; dusk; twilight. |
| homily |
any discourse offering moral advice or admonitions. |
| lattice |
a flat framework made with strips of wood or other material. The strips cross each other and have open spaces in between. A lattice is often used as a screen on a porch or in a garden. |
| rapacious |
capable of capturing and eating live prey; predacious. |
| salvo |
the firing of guns or other firearms simultaneously or in succession, especially as a salute. |
| triage |
a system of determining priority of medical treatment, on the basis of need, chances of survival, and the like, to victims on a battlefield or in a hospital emergency ward. |