| abeyance |
temporary suspension or cessation. |
| adulteration |
the act or process of making worse or impure by adding unnecessary or inferior ingredients. |
| banal |
lacking originality or liveliness; disappointingly ordinary; commonplace; trite. |
| belie |
to give a false impression of. |
| cantankerous |
irritable, stubborn, and quarrelsome. |
| deadeye |
an expert shooter. |
| exegesis |
a critical explanation or interpretive analysis, especially of religious texts. |
| hirsute |
covered with hair or stiff hairs; hairy or shaggy. |
| inchoate |
partially or imperfectly developed. |
| lambent |
glowing softly. |
| lanugo |
fine, soft hair, especially that with which a human fetus or newborn is covered. |
| pleonasm |
a redundant word, phrase, or expression. |
| preferment |
the act of promoting or being promoted to a higher position or office. |
| schadenfreude |
(often capitalized) pleasure derived from the misfortune of others. |
| sere1 |
dried up or withered. |