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