| appurtenance |
(plural) equipment or instruments used for a given purpose; gear. |
| bibulous |
addicted to alcohol; alcoholic. |
| cognomen |
a last name; surname. |
| disencumber |
to remove burdens or hindrances from. |
| epicure |
a person who has cultivated tastes, as in food or wine; connoisseur. |
| hagiography |
an admiring and uncritical biography of anyone. |
| iatrogenic |
caused by a physician or medical treatment, especially from drugs or surgery. |
| incursion |
a raid or sudden invasion. |
| 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. |
| intelligentsia |
the elite class of highly learned people within a society, or those who consider themselves part of such a class. |
| minatory |
presenting a threat; menacing. |
| profligate |
totally given over to immoral and shameful pursuits; dissolute. |
| salacious |
excited by lust; lecherous. |
| tyro |
one who is beginning to learn a business, trade, sport, or the like; novice; neophyte. |
| uxorial |
of, pertaining to, or befitting a wife. |