| appellation |
a name, title, or other designation. |
| canard |
a deliberately false story or rumor, usually defamatory to someone. |
| cantankerous |
irritable, stubborn, and quarrelsome. |
| cession |
the act of formally giving up or signing over, as a territory; ceding. |
| collateral |
property or other security put forward to guarantee repayment of a loan. |
| daunt |
to lessen the determination of; intimidate; discourage. |
| desiccate |
to remove the moisture in (food) so as to preserve it. |
| flange |
a collar or rim that projects from a pipe, housing, or the like to provide strength, stability, or a place for attaching other parts. |
| highbrow |
one who has or pretends to have highly sophisticated intellectual and cultural interests and tastes (often used disparagingly). |
| inadvertent |
not planned or intended; unintentional. |
| 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. |
| interdict |
to deter or impede by the steady use of firepower. |
| macrocosm |
a large unit or entity that represents on a large scale one of its smaller components. |
| splenetic |
ill-tempered or spiteful. |
| stentorian |
extremely loud and powerful. |