| abeyance |
temporary suspension or cessation. |
| abysmal |
of vast extent; unmeasurable; extreme. |
| accretion |
the process of gradual increase or growth, especially by additions from the outside. |
| agog |
highly excited and full of anticipation. |
| alfresco |
in the open air; outdoors. |
| benign |
causing little or no harm. |
| cantankerous |
irritable, stubborn, and quarrelsome. |
| frangible |
easy to break; breakable; fragile. |
| goad |
something that spurs a person to action; stimulus. |
| indomitable |
too strong to be subdued or discouraged; unconquerable. |
| mahatma |
(sometimes capitalized) in Buddhism and theosophy, any of a class of persons revered for their wisdom and love of humanity. |
| salvo |
the firing of guns or other firearms simultaneously or in succession, especially as a salute. |
| solipsism |
the self-centered habit of interpreting and judging all things exclusively according to one's own concepts of meaning and value. |
| somatic |
of or pertaining to the body itself; corporeal. |
| stridulate |
to produce a shrill grating, creaking, or chirping sound by rubbing certain parts of the body together, as some insects do. |