limn
Depict or describe in painting or in words.
demagogue
A political leader who seeks support by appealing to the desires and prejudices of ordinary people rather than by using rational argument.
gnomic
Difficult to understand because enigmatic or ambiguous.
ruse
An action designed to deceive someone; a trick.
miasma
An unpleasant or unhealthy smell or vapor.
modus operandi
A particular way or method of doing something.
reticence
The quality of not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily.
caul
The membrane enclosing a fetus.
suture
A stitch or row of stitches holding together the edges of a wound or surgical incision.
griot
A West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet, or musician.
moribund
At the point of death.
fiat
A formal authorization or proposition; a decree.
calcified
Hardened (usually by deposition of or conversion into calcium carbonate or some other insoluble calcium compounds).
malign
Evil in nature or effect.
crinolines
Stiffened or hooped petticoat worn to make a long skirt stand out.
ineffable
Too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words.
felicity
Intense happiness.
perjure
Willfully tell an untruth or make a misrepresentation under oath; commit perjury.
placenta
A flattened circular organ in the uterus of pregnant eutherian mammals, nourishing and maintaining the fetus through the umbilical cord.
scald
Injure with very hot liquid or steam.
