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| Explanation of banter (noun) conversation which is amusing and not serious; tease; joke Sample of banter Throughout, his banter came as thick and fast as softshelled crab, only halting as he paused to take a slurp from his Dixie Beer or to wipe the steam off the camera lens.
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| Explanation of coalesce (verb) to grow together; to merge; to unite Sample of coalesce The bride and groom coalesced their funds to increase their collateral. At the end of the conference the five groups coalesced in one room.
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| Explanation of incontrovertible (adjective) unquestionable; impossible to debate Sample of incontrovertible The government had never been prepared to take any action without incontrovertible proof of a direct relationship between an industrial process and a particular pattern of death, disease or environmental damage.
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| Explanation of acumen (noun) keenness of mind; insight; astuteness; shrewdness Sample of acumen She had no workshop, nobody to help her and no business acumen. A striking feature of the campaign is the firm grasp voters seem to have of the main issues, and the shrewdness and acumen they show in arguing not only for one side or the other but for all sides at once.
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| Explanation of anthology (noun) collection of choice literary works; compilation Sample of anthology Their anthology, like Grigson's, is valuable in that it steps outside the ordinary canon of eighteenth century verse to recover poets whose works bear consideration.
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| Explanation of festoon (verb) to decorate with chains of flowers or leaves, etc. Sample of festoon You're an architect, someone who's supposed to improve this planet, not festoon it with ill-placed coils of lurid metal.
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| Explanation of monologue (noun) speech by one person Sample of monologue Like a best-man's speech, Edward Petherbridge's The Eight O'Clock News is an anecdotal monologue, often rambling, occasionally funny and inevitably far too long.
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| Explanation of epigram (noun) witty or satirical poem or statement; letter; ingenious saying; proverb; phrase Sample of epigram The poet wrote an epigram about the upcoming election.
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| Explanation of deplorable (adjective) lamentable; wretched Sample of deplorable It is deplorable that the Americans took a lot of land cheap from Cubans and Spaniards.
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| Explanation of dispatch (noun) sending off; shipment; message; communication; promptness Sample of dispatch On the last day of 1921 the Party Central Committee appointed Feliks Dzerzhinsky, the head of the Cheka and Commissar for Transport, to the commission for the dispatch of food supplies and grain seed from Siberia and the Ukraine.
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