Refusenik
[noun]
MEANING:
a citizen of the Soviet Union, especially Jewish, who is denied the permission to emigrate
Calumny
[noun]
MEANING:
1. to disrepute or defame someone by false malicious statements
2. the act of disreputing a person with false statements
Epigram
[noun]
MEANING:
1. a paradoxical or satirical poem or saying
Filch
[transitive verb]
MEANING:
1. to steal furtively
2. pilfer
Frond
[noun]
MEANING:
1. a leaflike thallus
2. a large leaf, especially like that of a palm or fern, that has been divided finely