| abeyance |
temporary suspension or cessation. |
| aleatory |
pertaining to or depending on luck, chance, or contingency. |
| amity |
friendly and peaceful relations; good will. |
| bereft |
deprived or stripped of something. |
| blatant |
completely obvious or undisguised, sometimes offensively so. |
| diatribe |
a bitter, abusive attack in speech or writing. |
| impute |
to ascribe or attribute to a source or cause. |
| knurled |
having small ridges. |
| lattice |
a flat framework made with strips of wood or other material. The strips cross each other and have open spaces in between. A lattice is often used as a screen on a porch or in a garden. |
| meretricious |
appealing or attracting in a cheap, showy, or shallow way. |
| pastiche |
a work of visual art, music, or literature that consists mostly of materials and techniques borrowed from other works, sometimes done as an exercise to learn the technique of others. |
| pneumatic |
of, using, or concerning air or other gases. |
| putrefaction |
the act or process of rotting or decomposing. |
| shunt |
to turn or move aside or out of the way; divert. |
| stridulate |
to produce a shrill grating, creaking, or chirping sound by rubbing certain parts of the body together, as some insects do. |