| arrant |
complete; unmitigated; downright. |
| cyst |
a small pouch within body tissue that is filled with fluid or air. Some cysts are connected with serious disease, but most are not harmful at all. |
| demarcate |
to set apart or separate, as if with boundaries. |
| espouse |
to take up, hold, or commit oneself to (a cause, idea, or belief); embrace. |
| exegesis |
a critical explanation or interpretive analysis, especially of religious texts. |
| froward |
unwilling to agree or obey; stubborn; perverse. |
| inadvertent |
not planned or intended; unintentional. |
| indulgent |
gratifying, or being inclined to gratify or yield to others' wishes, especially rather than enforcing discipline or strictness. |
| peripatetic |
walking or traveling around; going from place to place; itinerant. |
| preferment |
the act of promoting or being promoted to a higher position or office. |
| profligate |
totally given over to immoral and shameful pursuits; dissolute. |
| remonstrate |
to say in opposition, protest, or objection. |
| reprise |
repetition of a musical phrase or theme in an identical or slightly altered way. |
| syntax |
the word order or pattern of word order in a sentence. |
| uxorious |
excessively or foolishly devoted to one's wife, and often thereby submissive to her. |