| abeyance |
temporary suspension or cessation. |
| abstruse |
difficult to comprehend or understand; esoteric; arcane. |
| attenuate |
to cause to be thin, rarefied, or fine. |
| calumny |
a harmful statement, known by the maker to be false. |
| dawdle |
to waste time; be slow. |
| deify |
to raise to the rank of a god; consider to be a god. |
| disencumber |
to remove burdens or hindrances from. |
| engender |
to create or give rise to. |
| facetious |
not serious; humorous or frivolous. |
| inadvertent |
not planned or intended; unintentional. |
| picayune |
having little value or significance; small; paltry. |
| quiescence |
a state of inaction, rest, or stillness; dormancy. |
| recidivism |
chronic return to bad habits, especially criminal relapse. |
| solecism |
a gross violation of convention in grammar, etiquette, or the like; impropriety. |
| vouchsafe |
to grant or give with condescension or as a special favor. |