| buttress |
a structure built to give support to the outside of a building or a wall. |
| candor |
the quality of openness, honesty, and straightforwardness in expression. |
| clinch |
to make certain or final; settle. |
| concoct |
to make by putting together a number of parts or ingredients. |
| confederation |
the act or process of confederating or allying. |
| contrive |
to plan in a clever way; invent. |
| decelerate |
to lower the speed of; decrease in velocity; slow down. |
| detonate |
to explode or cause to explode. |
| enrapture |
to cause to be in rapture or to be ecstatically joyful. |
| imprecise |
not exact, accurate, or well-defined; vague. |
| jocose |
inclined to joke; jovial; merry. |
| mandatory |
ordered; required; obligatory. |
| petulance |
the state or quality of being easily or unreasonably irritated, impatient, or ill tempered. |
| transitory |
lasting for only a short time; brief. |
| ungovernable |
unable to be governed, ordered, or controlled; uncontrollable. |