cognoscente |
someone who has exceptional knowledge in a given area, especially of fashion, literature, or the fine arts; connoisseur. |
comity |
mutual courtesy and respectful treatment among people or nations. |
distraught |
mentally or emotionally unbalanced; crazed. |
elide |
to leave out or slur, as a syllable or letter, in pronunciation. |
eruct |
to belch forth. |
fealty |
faithfulness or loyalty. |
glut |
a greater supply or amount than is needed. |
idiosyncrasy |
a characteristic of temperament, habit, or physical structure particular to a given individual or group; peculiarity. |
imbroglio |
a difficult, confused, or complicated situation, often involving a misunderstanding, disagreement, or quarrel. |
imprecation |
a curse, uttered or thought of. |
maverick |
a person who thinks and behaves independently, especially one who refuses to adhere to the orthodoxy of the group to which he or she belongs. |
parlance |
manner of speaking or writing, especially word choice; vernacular. |
solipsism |
the self-centered habit of interpreting and judging all things exclusively according to one's own concepts of meaning and value. |
somatic |
of or pertaining to the body itself; corporeal. |
supine |
lying with the face upward. |