| apropos |
appropriate; relevant; opportune. |
| astringent |
a substance or drug that contracts body tissue and slows discharge or secretion. |
| burgeon |
to start to grow; send forth shoots, leaves, buds, or the like (often followed by "out" or "forth"). |
| cognizant |
aware; informed (usually followed by "of"). |
| conduction |
the transmission or transfer, as of heat, electrical charges, or nervous impulses, through a medium. |
| fungible |
interchangeable. |
| immaculate |
not dirty; completely clean. |
| insouciant |
having no cares or anxieties; light-hearted; carefree. |
| intelligentsia |
the elite class of highly learned people within a society, or those who consider themselves part of such a class. |
| obscurantism |
a deliberate lack of clarity or directness of expression, as in certain styles of art or literature. |
| precursory |
coming before and serving to indicate what will follow; premonitory. |
| rebarbative |
tending to irritate or repel; forbidding or unattractive. |
| recondite |
involving profound concepts and complexities; not easily understood. |
| solipsism |
the self-centered habit of interpreting and judging all things exclusively according to one's own concepts of meaning and value. |
| tamp |
to compress and pack tightly by repeated light taps. |