| amalgam |
a mixture of diverse components. |
| arduous |
entailing great difficulty, exertion, or endurance; laborious. |
| askew |
not straight; crooked. |
| culmination |
the highest point; zenith; climax. |
| duplicity |
deceitful speech or action. |
| empirical |
based on or verifiable by experience or experiment, rather than on or by theory. |
| enigmatic |
puzzling, mysterious, or inexplicable. |
| fanfare |
a flourish of trumpets, used to mark an entrance or beginning. |
| grapple |
to grasp, twist, or wrestle in close combat. |
| minuscule |
so small as to be almost negligible; tiny. |
| opinionated |
having definite and unchangeable views of things, often seemingly on all subjects. |
| preponderance |
superiority in amount, strength, significance, weight, or the like. |
| soliloquy |
an act of talking or a speech by one who is, or is considered to be, alone. |
| suppress |
to stop the activities or progress of, especially by force. |
| ulterior |
beyond or excluded from what is openly admitted or shown, especially when concealed for the purposes of deception. |