| cavalier |
carefree and offhand; nonchalant. |
| demotic |
of or relating to the common people; popular. |
| disencumber |
to remove burdens or hindrances from. |
| emote |
to express or simulate feelings, especially in an exaggerated or theatrical manner. |
| fledge |
to grow flight feathers. |
| guttural |
articulated in the back of the mouth; velar. |
| 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. |
| inveigle |
to entice or ensnare by clever talk or flattery. |
| lorgnette |
eyeglasses, such as opera glasses, that have a short handle by which one holds them in position. |
| peremptory |
not permitting refusal or disobedience. |
| periphrasis |
an indirect or roundabout way of phrasing something; circumlocution. |
| recessional |
a piece of music that accompanies the exit of participants in a program or religious ceremony. |
| symbiosis |
a close association, usually a mutually beneficial relationship, between two dissimilar organisms. |
| tamp |
to compress and pack tightly by repeated light taps. |
| 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. |