| apposite |
fitting; pertinent; appropriate. |
| askance |
with distrust or suspicion. |
| asterisk |
a sign (*). It is used to show that there is other information on the page that explains the information where the sign is placed. |
| austerity |
a tightened or stringent economy, as when there are high taxes, frozen wages, and shortages of consumer goods. |
| barrage |
a great number of things coming one after another very quickly. |
| coeval |
coinciding in time of origin or existence; contemporary. |
| consummate |
of the highest order or degree. |
| deracinate |
to pull up by or as if by the roots; uproot; isolate; exile. |
| doggerel |
trivial, crudely constructed verse. |
| frangible |
easy to break; breakable; fragile. |
| 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. |
| reconnoiter |
to go through or over (an area) so as to gain information about it, as for military or engineering purposes. |
| somatic |
of or pertaining to the body itself; corporeal. |
| stanch1 |
to cause (a liquid, especially blood) to stop flowing. |
| 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. |