| abstruse |
difficult to comprehend or understand; esoteric; arcane. |
| adamant |
unlikely to change in response to any request or argument; firmly decided or fixed; unyielding. |
| barrage |
a great number of things coming one after another very quickly. |
| fulminate |
to vehemently denounce or criticize something. |
| gnomic |
short and pithy, as an aphorism. |
| inchoate |
partially or imperfectly developed. |
| inculcate |
to cause to accept an idea or value; imbue. |
| lorgnette |
eyeglasses, such as opera glasses, that have a short handle by which one holds them in position. |
| pungent |
sharp and strong in taste or smell. |
| rapacious |
capable of capturing and eating live prey; predacious. |
| recidivism |
chronic return to bad habits, especially criminal relapse. |
| sequester |
to remove into protection and isolation; seclude. |
| stridulate |
to produce a shrill grating, creaking, or chirping sound by rubbing certain parts of the body together, as some insects do. |
| tort |
in law, any civil rather than criminal harm or injury that violates the implicit duty of each citizen not to harm others, and for which one may bring a civil suit and collect compensation. |
| voluble |
characterized by a steady flow of words; fluent; talkative. |