| abut |
to adjoin or press against; be next to; border on. |
| assuage |
to make less severe or more bearable; alleviate. |
| cognomen |
a last name; surname. |
| comity |
mutual courtesy and respectful treatment among people or nations. |
| disinter |
to dig up or remove from a place of burial; exhume. |
| distraught |
mentally or emotionally unbalanced; crazed. |
| emulous |
filled with the desire to equal or surpass. |
| fixation |
an obsession, especially one that interferes with normal functioning. |
| gird |
to surround, bind, or encircle, as with a belt. |
| guttural |
articulated in the back of the mouth; velar. |
| humanism |
a doctrine or mode of thought that gives highest importance to human dignity, values, potentials, and achievements. |
| pungency |
sharpness or bite in taste or smell. |
| saturnine |
gloomy, sullen, or cynical in temperament or appearance. |
| scion |
an offspring or heir. |
| symbiosis |
a close association, usually a mutually beneficial relationship, between two dissimilar organisms. |