| caste |
the status conferred by the class to which one belongs. |
| dissimulate |
to hide one's true feelings, intentions, or the like by pretense or hypocrisy. |
| hirsute |
covered with hair or stiff hairs; hairy or shaggy. |
| laconic |
using very few words; succinct; terse. |
| lambent |
glowing softly. |
| liminal |
of or at the threshold of a physiological or psychological response or change of state. |
| mirabile dictu |
(Latin) wonderful to say or relate. |
| neophyte |
a beginner or novice at any activity. |
| oligarchy |
a government or state in which only a relatively few people or members of a family have real power. |
| pedagogy |
the act, process, or profession of teaching. |
| reprisal |
injury inflicted in retaliation for injury received, as in war; revenge. |
| solecism |
a gross violation of convention in grammar, etiquette, or the like; impropriety. |
| stative |
in grammar, of or designating a category of verbs that express state or condition. |
| syntax |
the word order or pattern of word order in a sentence. |
| woebegone |
displaying or full of distress. |