| appurtenance |
(plural) equipment or instruments used for a given purpose; gear. |
| apropos |
appropriate; relevant; opportune. |
| bereft |
deprived or stripped of something. |
| devolve |
of a duty or the like, to be passed on to someone else. |
| erudite |
having or showing a high level of scholarly knowledge; learned. |
| indulgent |
gratifying, or being inclined to gratify or yield to others' wishes, especially rather than enforcing discipline or strictness. |
| inflection |
change that occurs in the form of words to show a grammatical characteristic such as the tense of a verb, the number of a noun, or the degree of an adjective or adverb. |
| jejune |
lacking interest or liveliness; dull. |
| lapidary |
an expert on or dealer in gemstones. |
| mésalliance |
marriage with someone of lower social standing than oneself. |
| pastiche |
a work of visual art, music, or literature that consists mostly of materials and techniques borrowed from other works, sometimes done as an exercise to learn the technique of others. |
| salacious |
excited by lust; lecherous. |
| schadenfreude |
(often capitalized) pleasure derived from the misfortune of others. |
| shyster |
a person, usually a lawyer, who uses underhanded, unethical methods. |
| stridulate |
to produce a shrill grating, creaking, or chirping sound by rubbing certain parts of the body together, as some insects do. |