| abeyance |
temporary suspension or cessation. |
| academicism |
in the arts, rigid adherence to accepted and traditional forms. |
| bellicose |
easily incited to quarrel or fight; belligerent. |
| diatribe |
a bitter, abusive attack in speech or writing. |
| epigraph |
a pertinent quotation or motto, especially found at the beginning of a literary work or of a chapter. |
| flak |
(informal) irritating opposition, criticism, or dissent. |
| fledge |
to grow flight feathers. |
| granulate |
to make into small particles or grains. |
| immiscible |
not able to be mixed or blended. |
| inadvertent |
not planned or intended; unintentional. |
| inflection |
change that occurs in the form of words to show a grammatical characteristic such as the tense of a verb, the number of a noun, or the degree of an adjective or adverb. |
| occlude |
to close or obstruct (a passage or opening, one's vision, or the like). |
| perilous |
causing or involving great danger; risky; hazardous. |
| recessional |
a piece of music that accompanies the exit of participants in a program or religious ceremony. |
| reprisal |
injury inflicted in retaliation for injury received, as in war; revenge. |