| aleatory |
pertaining to or depending on luck, chance, or contingency. |
| atonement |
the act of making reparation for a sin, crime, error, or the like. |
| barrage |
a great number of things coming one after another very quickly. |
| boudoir |
a woman's private sitting room or bedroom. |
| caparison |
decorative trappings to cover a horse's saddle or harness. |
| disaffection |
an absence or loss of good will, faith, or loyalty, especially toward a government, principle, or the like. |
| discountenance |
to embarrass or disconcert. |
| emulous |
filled with the desire to equal or surpass. |
| equipoise |
a state of balance or equal weight, importance, or the like; equilibrium. |
| frangible |
easy to break; breakable; fragile. |
| kismet |
destiny, fortune, or fate. |
| macerate |
to soften (food or the like) by soaking, as in digestion. |
| parsimonious |
excessively frugal; stingy. |
| peroration |
the concluding part of a speech in which there is a summing up of the principal points. |
| vouchsafe |
to grant or give with condescension or as a special favor. |