| adamantine |
firmly decided or fixed; unyielding. |
| apotheosis |
a perfect or ideal example; epitome. |
| argot |
the vocabulary or jargon characteristic of a specific group or class, especially of criminals. |
| burgeon |
to start to grow; send forth shoots, leaves, buds, or the like (often followed by "out" or "forth"). |
| consummate |
of the highest order or degree. |
| decedent |
in law, one who has died. |
| disallow |
to refuse to allow or admit; reject. |
| distraught |
mentally or emotionally unbalanced; crazed. |
| doggerel |
trivial, crudely constructed verse. |
| exponent |
one that expounds or interprets. |
| harbinger |
someone or something that signals or foreshadows a later arrival or occurrence; herald; forerunner. |
| 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. |
| oblivious |
not conscious or paying attention; unknowing or unaware (usually followed by "to" or "of"). |
| rebarbative |
tending to irritate or repel; forbidding or unattractive. |
| surcingle |
a girth or belt that wraps around the body of a horse to secure a saddle, pack, or the like to its back. |