| assail |
to attack with vigor or violence; assault. |
| blandishment |
(often plural) flattering or coaxing remarks or stratagems intended to persuade. |
| coalesce |
to grow together or unite to form a single body or organization; unify; fuse. |
| disencumber |
to remove burdens or hindrances from. |
| flummox |
(informal) to confuse or puzzle. |
| harbinger |
someone or something that signals or foreshadows a later arrival or occurrence; herald; forerunner. |
| indistinct |
not clearly perceived or perceiving. |
| irrefragable |
impossible to refute or dispute; undeniable. |
| mélange |
a mixture, usually of very dissimilar elements. |
| oblique |
not direct or straightforward in intent, means, or achievement; indirect or devious. |
| parlance |
manner of speaking or writing, especially word choice; vernacular. |
| peroration |
the concluding part of a speech in which there is a summing up of the principal points. |
| quondam |
having been in the past; former. |
| shyster |
a person, usually a lawyer, who uses underhanded, unethical methods. |
| welter |
to roll about or wallow, as in mud or the open sea. |