| abash |
to cause to feel embarrassed, uneasy, or ashamed. |
| apposite |
fitting; pertinent; appropriate. |
| arrant |
complete; unmitigated; downright. |
| bereft |
deprived or stripped of something. |
| figurehead |
a person whose title sounds important but who has no real power. |
| flout |
to show scorn or contempt for, especially by openly or deliberately disobeying. |
| gambit |
a tactic or maneuver designed to gain an advantage, especially one that involves some sacrifice on one's part. |
| ingenuous |
having or showing simplicity and lack of sophistication; artless. |
| liminal |
of or at the threshold of a physiological or psychological response or change of state. |
| quotidian |
happening every day or once a day. |
| revetment |
a facing of stone, masonry, or the like to support or protect a wall, embankment, or mound of earth. |
| sere1 |
dried up or withered. |
| travesty |
something so grotesque or inferior as to seem a parody. |
| 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. |
| tyro |
one who is beginning to learn a business, trade, sport, or the like; novice; neophyte. |