ossify - To change into bone; to become set in a rigidly conventional pattern.
Synonyms: rigidify, petrify
Usage: It takes millions of years for organic remains to ossify and turn into fossils.
jilt - To deceive or drop (a lover) suddenly or callously.
Synonyms: cast aside, leave
Usage: Since being jilted by his fiancée, he had grown to distrust all women.
prate - To talk idly and at length; chatter.
Synonyms: blabber, palaver, piffle, prattle
Usage: I know the age better than you do, though you will prate about it so tediously.
inspissate - To undergo thickening or cause to thicken, as by boiling or evaporation.
Synonyms: condense, thicken
Usage: The recipe then instructed the cook to inspissate the sauce by adding flour.
grovel - To lie or creep in a prostrate position, as in subservience or humility.
Synonyms: cower, cringe, fawn
Usage: The prisoners groveled before the emperor, hoping that he would commute their sentences
