| abeyance |
temporary suspension or cessation. |
| apprehensive |
feeling fearful about future events. |
| astute |
keen in understanding and judgment; shrewd. |
| attenuate |
to cause to be thin, rarefied, or fine. |
| boorish |
rude; ill-mannered; crude. |
| canny |
difficult to fool or take advantage of; shrewd; wary; clever. |
| eidetic |
pertaining to or designating the ability to recall images in almost perfect detail. |
| equivocal |
having at least two plausible alternative meanings, often intentionally so in order to deceive or avoid commitment; ambiguous. |
| indolence |
the tendency to avoid exertion or effort; laziness. |
| malaise |
a state or condition of feeling generally unwell, mentally depressed, sluggish, or uneasy. |
| pronate |
to turn or rotate (the hand or forearm) so that the palm of the hand faces down or backwards. |
| reprisal |
injury inflicted in retaliation for injury received, as in war; revenge. |
| supine |
lying with the face upward. |
| topography |
the shape of the earth's surface across an area or region. The topography of an area includes the size and location of hills and dips in the land. |
| travesty |
something so grotesque or inferior as to seem a parody. |