| abeyance |
temporary suspension or cessation. |
| agog |
highly excited and full of anticipation. |
| comity |
mutual courtesy and respectful treatment among people or nations. |
| demotic |
of or relating to the common people; popular. |
| epistolary |
established or continued through letters. |
| exceptionable |
likely to be objected to; objectionable. |
| gloaming |
late evening; dusk; twilight. |
| heinous |
extremely wicked or despicable; atrocious. |
| impermeable |
not permitting passage or penetration. |
| impinge |
to encroach. |
| incessant |
never stopping; constant. |
| incumbent |
currently holding an office or position. |
| macerate |
to soften (food or the like) by soaking, as in digestion. |
| mésalliance |
marriage with someone of lower social standing than oneself. |
| recurve |
to bend or curve back or backward, as the ends of certain shooting bows. |