| accelerate |
to increase the speed or rate of. |
| accuracy |
the condition of being accurate. |
| buoy |
a float attached by line to the bottom of a body of water to mark a location. |
| fatality |
a sudden or unexpected death. |
| insightful |
keenly perceptive. |
| latency |
the state of being present but not yet apparent, developed, or operative. |
| lengthy |
tediously long in duration, as a speech. |
| patent |
a government grant that gives someone the right to make, use, or sell an invention. A patent is given for a certain number of years. |
| scholarly |
of or appropriate to a student or a learned person. |
| scorch |
to burn slightly. |
| sham |
an imitation that is passed as genuine; counterfeit. |
| so-called |
improperly or incorrectly called. |
| stereotype |
a standardized and usually oversimplified and inaccurate conception held in common by many people. |
| suffrage |
the right to vote or the exercise of this right. |
| vigilante |
one who seeks to avenge a crime or injury or to punish a suspected criminal without legal authority or due process. |