| astringent |
a substance or drug that contracts body tissue and slows discharge or secretion. |
| augury |
the art or practice or an instance of predicting the future or obtaining hidden knowledge by interpreting omens. |
| boudoir |
a woman's private sitting room or bedroom. |
| coddle |
to simmer in water that is almost at the boiling point. |
| deadeye |
an expert shooter. |
| diatribe |
a bitter, abusive attack in speech or writing. |
| epistemology |
the branch of philosophy dealing with the origin, nature, and limits of human knowledge. |
| fledge |
to grow flight feathers. |
| immiscible |
not able to be mixed or blended. |
| inflection |
change that occurs in the form of words to show a grammatical characteristic such as the tense of a verb, the number of a noun, or the degree of an adjective or adverb. |
| insularity |
the condition of being closed to new ideas or outside influences; narrow-mindedness. |
| irrefragable |
impossible to refute or dispute; undeniable. |
| limn |
to paint or draw. |
| pneumatic |
of, using, or concerning air or other gases. |
| risible |
provoking laughter; laughable or funny. |