| appellation |
a name, title, or other designation. |
| berate |
to reproach or scold severely. |
| cognomen |
a last name; surname. |
| descant |
a secondary, usually higher, melody that is played or sung at the same time as the chief melody. |
| diurnal |
occurring or active during, or belonging to, the daytime rather than nighttime. |
| exponent |
one that expounds or interprets. |
| feckless |
weak or incompetent; ineffective. |
| louche |
of questionable decency, morality, or taste; shady; disreputable. |
| maunder |
to speak in an aimless or foolish way; babble. |
| mirabile dictu |
(Latin) wonderful to say or relate. |
| penumbra |
an indefinite, borderline area. |
| pungent |
sharp and strong in taste or smell. |
| Saturnalia |
an occasion of unrestrained revelry. |
| 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. |
| voluble |
characterized by a steady flow of words; fluent; talkative. |