| apprehensive |
feeling fearful about future events. |
| blatant |
completely obvious or undisguised, sometimes offensively so. |
| coddle |
to simmer in water that is almost at the boiling point. |
| corporeal |
having to do with a physical body; bodily. |
| doyen |
the senior or highest-ranking male member of a group. |
| effluvium |
an outflow of usually invisible, foul-smelling vapor or gas. |
| laudatory |
expressing praise. |
| loll |
to hang down loosely; dangle. |
| malinger |
to pretend illness or injury, especially in order to be excused from duty or work. |
| mésalliance |
marriage with someone of lower social standing than oneself. |
| otiose |
having no purpose or use; unnecessary or futile. |
| peroration |
the concluding part of a speech in which there is a summing up of the principal points. |
| reprisal |
injury inflicted in retaliation for injury received, as in war; revenge. |
| salvo |
the firing of guns or other firearms simultaneously or in succession, especially as a salute. |
| sylph |
a slender, graceful woman or girl. |