| assail |
to attack with vigor or violence; assault. |
| assuage |
to make less severe or more bearable; alleviate. |
| baleful |
threatening harm; full of malice; ominous. |
| coeval |
coinciding in time of origin or existence; contemporary. |
| cognomen |
a last name; surname. |
| expiation |
the act or the means of making amends, as for a sin or crime. |
| immiscible |
not able to be mixed or blended. |
| malaise |
a state or condition of feeling generally unwell, mentally depressed, sluggish, or uneasy. |
| oblique |
not direct or straightforward in intent, means, or achievement; indirect or devious. |
| ostentation |
a showy display to impress others. |
| rapacious |
capable of capturing and eating live prey; predacious. |
| stanch1 |
to cause (a liquid, especially blood) to stop flowing. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| vouchsafe |
to grant or give with condescension or as a special favor. |