accoutrements: personal clothing,accessories; the equipment including weapons and clothing of a soldier
- The soldiers marched onto the battle field carrying their accoutrements.
apogee: the highest or most distant point; climax
- The best part of a book is when the reader teaches the apogee, the most intense part of the book.
apropos: opportune; pertinent; at the right time
- His arrival was apropos as he came right when it was his turn to go on stage.
bicker: to engage in petulant or peevish argument; an angry dispute
coalesce: to unite as one or come together
- The two rivers coalesced into one.
contretemps: an embarrassing mischance; an inopportune occurrence
- She caused an contretemps by tripping in front of a crowd.
convolution: a rolled up or coiled condition
- The supplies became a convolution when they were mixed together.
cull: to choose; select; pick
- He decided to cull himself to who would get the blue ribbon.
disparate: dissimilar; essentially different; distinct in kind
- The friends had very disparate as they did not share a lot of common interests.
dogmatic: opinionated; asserting opinions in an arrogant manner
- His statement was dogmatic as he was very opinionated in his opinion.
licentious: lewd; unrestrained by law or morality; disregarding rules
- He had licentious behavior as he never paid attention the rules.
mete: to distribute or apportion by measure; allot
- She decided to mete the food evenly.
noxious: harmful or injurious to health or well-being; morally harmful
- She felt noxious from breathing in the fumes at the casino.
polemic: a controversial argument; a person who argues in opposition to another
- He was a polemic as he always argued against people.
populous: full of residents or inhabitants; heavily populated
- The ocean is populous with fish and mammals swimming everywhere.
probity: integrity and uprightness; honesty
- She is a model of probity because she follows through with what she says.
repartee: a quick, witty reply
- He was quick in repartee as he replied with a humorous comeback on the spot.
supervene: to take place or occur as something extra or extraneous
- As the night supervened, I steadily fell asleep.
truncate: to shorten or cut off
- His soccer career was truncated when he broke his leg.
unimpeachable: above suspicion; impossible to discredit; impeccable
- Since the evidence against the man was unimpeachable he was arrested.
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