| abeyance |
temporary suspension or cessation. |
| cachet |
prestige. |
| consternation |
surprise and alarm, leading to panic, deep disappointment, or total confusion. |
| deign |
to consider some act to be appropriate or in keeping with one's dignity; condescend. |
| exegesis |
a critical explanation or interpretive analysis, especially of religious texts. |
| flagitious |
viciously or shamefully wicked; infamous. |
| froward |
unwilling to agree or obey; stubborn; perverse. |
| guru |
in a cult or religious movement, a spiritual guide or leader, sometimes believed to be divine. |
| hypocrisy |
the practice or an instance of stating or pretending to hold beliefs or principles that one does not actually live by; insincerity. |
| internecine |
of or pertaining to conflict, discord, or struggle within a group. |
| munificent |
having or showing great generosity. |
| recrudesce |
to become active again or break out anew, as a disease or harmful condition. |
| sententious |
using or marked by pompous, high-flown moralizing. |
| solipsism |
the self-centered habit of interpreting and judging all things exclusively according to one's own concepts of meaning and value. |
| welter |
to roll about or wallow, as in mud or the open sea. |