astute |
keen in understanding and judgment; shrewd. |
blatant |
completely obvious or undisguised, sometimes offensively so. |
boudoir |
a woman's private sitting room or bedroom. |
descant |
a secondary, usually higher, melody that is played or sung at the same time as the chief melody. |
epistemology |
the branch of philosophy dealing with the origin, nature, and limits of human knowledge. |
fungible |
interchangeable. |
imprecation |
a curse, uttered or thought of. |
lupine2 |
fierce; greedy. |
munificent |
having or showing great generosity. |
neophyte |
a beginner or novice at any activity. |
parvenu |
a person who has suddenly acquired wealth or status, without acquiring the tastes, manners, customs, or the like of his or her new station. |
proselytize |
to convert or try actively to convert (others) to one's own beliefs or religion. |
repine |
to express or feel unhappiness; complain; fret. |
stentorian |
extremely loud and powerful. |
topography |
the shape of the earth's surface across an area or region. The topography of an area includes the size and location of hills and dips in the land. |