Cerulean

poetic/literaryadjectivedeep blue in color like a clear sky : cerulean waters and golden sands.

Kirtle

noun (archaic)
- a woman's gown or outer petticoat.
- a man's tunic or coat.

Pone

noun (also corn pone or pone bread)
- Unleavened cornbread in the form of flat oval cakes or loaves, originally as prepared with water by North American Indians and cooked in hot ashes.

Renege

verb - Go back on a promise, undertaking, or contract. - Another term for revoke (sense 2). - [ trans. ] archaic renounce or abandon (someone or something).

Burble

verb - Make a continuous murmuring noise. - Speak in an unintelligible or silly way, typically at unnecessary length. - (Aeronautics ,often as a noun, burbling) (of an airflow) break up into turbulence.

Relict

noun
- A thing that has survived from an earlier period or in a primitive form.
- An animal or plant that has survived while others of its group have become extinct.
- A species or community that formerly had a wider distribution but now survives in only a few localities such as refugia.

 - (archaic) a widow.

Donnée

noun
- A subject or theme of a narrative.
- A basic fact or assumption.

Jeremiad

noun - A long, mournful complaint or lamentation; a list of woes.

Minacious

adjective (rare) - Menacing; threatening. (Related to "menace" and other Latin words referring to things that projecting, jutting, threatening.)

Thew

noun (poetic/literary) - Muscular strength. Thews noun (pl.) - Muscles and tendons perceived as generating such strength. Thewy adjective

Carom

noun (Billiards) - Another term for billiard. - (Also carom billiards) Any of the billiard games played on a table without pockets. verb [ intrans. ] - Make a carom; strike and rebound.

Lapis

noun
- A bright blue metamorphic rock consisting largely of lazurite, used for decoration and in jewelry.
- A bright blue pigment formerly made by crushing this, being the original ultramarine.
- The color ultramarine.

 

Halcyon

adjective
- Calm, peaceful.
- Happy, golden.
- Prosperous, affluent.

Recidivism

noun - A tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior; especially to relapse into criminal behavior