| abrogate |
to abolish, repeal, or nullify by authority. |
| agog |
highly excited and full of anticipation. |
| baneful |
causing or leading to death, destruction, or ruin; harmful or deadly. |
| cantankerous |
irritable, stubborn, and quarrelsome. |
| demarcate |
to set apart or separate, as if with boundaries. |
| devolve |
of a duty or the like, to be passed on to someone else. |
| engender |
to create or give rise to. |
| harbinger |
someone or something that signals or foreshadows a later arrival or occurrence; herald; forerunner. |
| idyllic |
charmingly simple and natural, as a scene or experience; suggestive of peaceful countryside. |
| 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. |
| laureate |
one honored for achievement in a particular field or by a particular award, especially in the arts or sciences. |
| malapropism |
the humorous or ridiculous misuse of a word, especially by using a word that sounds similar to the correct word, but whose meaning is inappropriate. |
| proselytize |
to convert or try actively to convert (others) to one's own beliefs or religion. |
| putrefaction |
the act or process of rotting or decomposing. |
| stately |
dignified. |