| castellated |
constructed with turrets and battlements like a castle. |
| Draconian |
(often lower case) harshly cruel or rigorous. |
| eulogy |
a spoken or written tribute, especially to honor a dead person; high praise; formal commendation. |
| facetious |
not serious; humorous or frivolous. |
| fledge |
to grow flight feathers. |
| gird |
to surround, bind, or encircle, as with a belt. |
| guttural |
articulated in the back of the mouth; velar. |
| indomitable |
too strong to be subdued or discouraged; unconquerable. |
| insouciant |
having no cares or anxieties; light-hearted; carefree. |
| pandemic |
a widespread outbreak of disease that afflicts many people over different continents. |
| rebarbative |
tending to irritate or repel; forbidding or unattractive. |
| reconnaissance |
the act or process of examining an area, especially to gain militarily useful information. |
| trabeated |
using horizontal beams or lintels as supports instead of arches. |
| 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. |