| abstruse |
difficult to comprehend or understand; esoteric; arcane. |
| aleatory |
pertaining to or depending on luck, chance, or contingency. |
| blatant |
completely obvious or undisguised, sometimes offensively so. |
| centripetal |
forced or moving inward toward a center point or axis. |
| descry |
to see or make out, especially something obscured or at a distance. |
| hagiography |
an admiring and uncritical biography of anyone. |
| incursion |
a raid or sudden invasion. |
| insularity |
the condition of being closed to new ideas or outside influences; narrow-mindedness. |
| lugubrious |
sad or mournful, especially in an exaggerated way; gloomy. |
| pathos |
a quality in life or art that evokes pity, sadness, or compassion. |
| picayune |
having little value or significance; small; paltry. |
| recondite |
involving profound concepts and complexities; not easily understood. |
| reprisal |
injury inflicted in retaliation for injury received, as in war; revenge. |
| stipple |
a method of painting, drawing, or engraving by applying small points, dots, or dabs to a surface. |
| trabeated |
using horizontal beams or lintels as supports instead of arches. |