| abeyance |
temporary suspension or cessation. |
| aggregate |
a sum, combination, or composite of separable elements. |
| apocryphal |
of dubious authorship or authority. |
| atavism |
the recurrence or reappearance of a particular trait, style, attitude, or behavior that seemed to have disappeared, or that which has recurred or reappeared after such an absence. |
| blatant |
completely obvious or undisguised, sometimes offensively so. |
| crass |
lacking in sensitivity or refinement; crude. |
| figurehead |
a person whose title sounds important but who has no real power. |
| germane |
having relevance to a given matter; pertinent; significant. |
| goad |
something that spurs a person to action; stimulus. |
| jejune |
lacking interest or liveliness; dull. |
| mahatma |
(sometimes capitalized) in Buddhism and theosophy, any of a class of persons revered for their wisdom and love of humanity. |
| mélange |
a mixture, usually of very dissimilar elements. |
| meretricious |
appealing or attracting in a cheap, showy, or shallow way. |
| sequester |
to remove into protection and isolation; seclude. |
| syntax |
the word order or pattern of word order in a sentence. |