| adulation |
extreme or excessive praise. |
| alimony |
money that a court orders one member of a divorced couple to pay to the other. |
| aver |
to assert to be true; affirm. |
| congruity |
the state or fact of being similar in character or degree;correspondence or fit. |
| consonance |
agreement, correspondence, or harmony. |
| hysteria |
in an individual or group, an uncontrollable outburst of fear or other emotions, producing fits of weeping, laughter, irrational behavior, or the like. |
| jocose |
inclined to joke; jovial; merry. |
| memoir |
an account of facts or events based primarily on the author's personal experience. |
| preempt |
to seize or appropriate ahead of others. |
| protuberance |
that which projects; bulge or bump. |
| quip |
a short, humorous, clever, and often sarcastic utterance. |
| rejoinder |
a response to a reply; retort. |
| repressive |
acting or tending to restrain or subdue. |
| sanctify |
to make sacred or holy; consecrate. |