| abut |
to adjoin or press against; be next to; border on. |
| agog |
highly excited and full of anticipation. |
| canard |
a deliberately false story or rumor, usually defamatory to someone. |
| demotic |
of or relating to the common people; popular. |
| effrontery |
shameless impudence; insolence. |
| epigraph |
a pertinent quotation or motto, especially found at the beginning of a literary work or of a chapter. |
| imprecation |
a curse, uttered or thought of. |
| incredulous |
not able to believe something. |
| invidious |
tending to arouse feelings of resentment or animosity, especially because of a slight; offensive or discriminatory. |
| macrocosm |
a large unit or entity that represents on a large scale one of its smaller components. |
| nostrum |
a favorite but unproven scheme or theory, offered as a remedy for social or political problems; panacea. |
| obscurantism |
a deliberate lack of clarity or directness of expression, as in certain styles of art or literature. |
| recessional |
a piece of music that accompanies the exit of participants in a program or religious ceremony. |
| solecism |
a gross violation of convention in grammar, etiquette, or the like; impropriety. |
| 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. |