| abrogate |
to abolish, repeal, or nullify by authority. |
| baleful |
threatening harm; full of malice; ominous. |
| declivity |
a downward or descending slope. |
| derelict |
failing to fulfill one's responsibilities or obligations; remiss. |
| Draconian |
(often lower case) harshly cruel or rigorous. |
| exceptionable |
likely to be objected to; objectionable. |
| forswear |
to give up or renounce, often with an oath or pledge. |
| goad |
something that spurs a person to action; stimulus. |
| inquest |
a legal investigation, usually involving a jury, especially a coroner's investigation of a suspicious death. |
| laureate |
one honored for achievement in a particular field or by a particular award, especially in the arts or sciences. |
| louche |
of questionable decency, morality, or taste; shady; disreputable. |
| mendicant |
living on charity; begging. |
| recant |
to withdraw from commitment to (a former position or statement), especially publicly; retract. |
| remonstrate |
to say in opposition, protest, or objection. |
| triage |
a system of determining priority of medical treatment, on the basis of need, chances of survival, and the like, to victims on a battlefield or in a hospital emergency ward. |