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| Explanation of countenance (noun) form plural: countenances appearance especially facial expressions; the face and its features Sample of countenance His countenance showed fear. She was a tall, muscly woman, of handsome countenance, her faded blonde hair held up with an array of jewelled combs.
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| Explanation of solitary (adjective) forms: solitary; more solitary; most solitary; less solitary; least solitary alone; lonely Sample of solitary His self-enforced solitary lifestyle made people think of him as strange. In his survey of all incidents involving a solitary offender recorded by the police as rapes or attempted rapes between 2007 and 2011 in six English counties, he found that 204 men were arrested for rape or attempted rape.
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| Explanation of credulous (adjective) forms: more credulous; most credulous; less credulous; least credulous given to believing anything too easily Sample of credulous The man would not be a good detective, he was much too credulous in character.
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| Explanation of staccato (adjective) describing the breaks between successive sounds Sample of staccato The staccato gunfire was present every night in their neighborhood. Gleaming French cars nosed along the cluttered roadway bearing corpulent Chinese and their bejewelled wives or concubines in their curtained interiors, and the staccato, unmelodious babble of the Cantonese dialect had entirely replaced the softer, sibilant tones of the Annamese language.
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| Explanation of hardy (adjective) forms: hardier; hardiest; less hardy; least hardy resilient; having endurance Sample of hardy Young men have to be hardy to be in the Armed Forces. Other than their requirement for clean water, the Siamese Tigers are quite hardy fish, resilient to most infections -- except one.
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| Explanation of inept (adjective) forms: inepter; ineptest; less inept; least inept ineffective; not skilled Sample of inept The new worker was fired because he was inept at all areas of his job.
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| Explanation of coherent (adjective) forms: more coherent; most coherent; less coherent; least coherent clearly holding together Sample of coherent Despite the fact she had much to drink she was still able to speak in a coherent manner. Partnerships were based on the assumption that reasonable people working in a multitude of organizations could devise an agreed strategy for parts of urban Britain: local and central government would work in harness and would incorporate other interests -- the police, the business community, voluntary groups, and so on, into a coherent administrative whole.
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| Explanation of acme (noun) form: no plural high attainment; peak of achievement Sample of acme My wife reached her professional acme when she was appointed CEO of one of the largest IT companies in the UK. The great Continental stations, Paris, Stuttgart, Vienna, Budapest, Bucharest, Constantinople, have been the beginning and ending and en route stopping-places in the wealth of literature inspired by that acme of railway luxury, the Orient Express, the train on which James Bond once shot a man for ordering red wine with his fish.
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| Explanation of petty (adjective) forms: petty; more petty; most petty; less petty; least petty small or of no importance Sample of petty The man received one year in jail for petty theft. The disagreements between Charman and Allison were amplified in the airtight atmosphere of the studio, but they were always petty and did not run to bitterness.
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| Explanation of indelible (adjective) forms: more indelible; most indelible; less indelible; least indelible unable to be erased; permanent Sample of indelible You should use an indelible pen to mark clothing. The strange experiences no doubt left an indelible mark on the memories of the three electricians who would never forget the malevolent power of that old wooden box.
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