| combatant |
someone or something that engages in fighting, especially as part of warfare. |
| dexterity |
grace and easy quickness in using the hands or body; skill. |
| gist |
the essential part or idea, as of an argument or written work. |
| innuendo |
an indirect and usually derogatory hint, allusion, or insinuation. |
| lampoon |
an attack through ridicule, as in an essay, cartoon, or comedy; satire. |
| piteous |
worthy of or inspiring great sympathy. |
| preposterous |
totally unlikely, unbelievable, or senseless; absurd. |
| reformatory |
a corrective institution for disciplining and re-educating young offenders. |
| roster |
a list of names of individuals or groups belonging to or participating in an organization, class, military or police unit, or the like. |
| secrete |
to produce a fluid or other substance and release it into or out of the body. |
| stringent |
rigorous or exacting; strict. |
| superfluous |
being beyond a sufficient amount; excessive. |
| surrogate |
acting as, or considered to be, a substitute or replacement. |
| vicarious |
experienced through imagined participation in someone else's actions, sufferings, or the like. |
| viscid |
of a gluelike consistency. |