| abstruse |
difficult to comprehend or understand; esoteric; arcane. |
| cavalier |
carefree and offhand; nonchalant. |
| concur |
to share the same opinion; agree. |
| divergence |
the act of separating and moving or leading in different directions. |
| elide |
to leave out or slur, as a syllable or letter, in pronunciation. |
| figurehead |
a person whose title sounds important but who has no real power. |
| froward |
unwilling to agree or obey; stubborn; perverse. |
| imprecation |
a curse, uttered or thought of. |
| maladroit |
not skillful; clumsy; tactless. |
| nonplus |
to cause (someone) to be unable to think of what to say, do, or decide; perplex; bewilder. |
| peroration |
the concluding part of a speech in which there is a summing up of the principal points. |
| rodomontade |
puffed-up boasting or bravado. |
| schadenfreude |
(often capitalized) pleasure derived from the misfortune of others. |
| sententious |
using or marked by pompous, high-flown moralizing. |
| stanch1 |
to cause (a liquid, especially blood) to stop flowing. |