| askance |
with distrust or suspicion. |
| baleful |
threatening harm; full of malice; ominous. |
| constrict |
to pull or squeeze in; make smaller or more narrow; tighten. |
| disinter |
to dig up or remove from a place of burial; exhume. |
| forbear |
to keep or abstain from (an action or utterance). |
| homily |
any discourse offering moral advice or admonitions. |
| imprecation |
a curse, uttered or thought of. |
| jejune |
lacking interest or liveliness; dull. |
| lambent |
glowing softly. |
| maunder |
to speak in an aimless or foolish way; babble. |
| munificent |
having or showing great generosity. |
| recessional |
a piece of music that accompanies the exit of participants in a program or religious ceremony. |
| recurve |
to bend or curve back or backward, as the ends of certain shooting bows. |
| sepsis |
infection, especially by pus-forming bacteria in the blood or tissues. |
| tort |
in law, any civil rather than criminal harm or injury that violates the implicit duty of each citizen not to harm others, and for which one may bring a civil suit and collect compensation. |