| apprehensive |
feeling fearful about future events. |
| assail |
to attack with vigor or violence; assault. |
| cachet |
prestige. |
| chary |
not dispensing freely. |
| comity |
mutual courtesy and respectful treatment among people or nations. |
| disencumber |
to remove burdens or hindrances from. |
| elide |
to leave out or slur, as a syllable or letter, in pronunciation. |
| gamut |
the whole extent or range of anything. |
| impermeable |
not permitting passage or penetration. |
| indolence |
the tendency to avoid exertion or effort; laziness. |
| ineluctable |
impossible to be avoided; inescapable. |
| maunder |
to speak in an aimless or foolish way; babble. |
| obtrusive |
aggressive and self-assertive, or inclined to be so. |
| stanch1 |
to cause (a liquid, especially blood) to stop flowing. |
| stochastic |
of, or arising from chance or probability. |