| abash |
to cause to feel embarrassed, uneasy, or ashamed. |
| credulous |
disposed to believe, especially on scanty evidence; gullible. |
| disencumber |
to remove burdens or hindrances from. |
| duress |
intimidation or coercion. |
| equipoise |
a state of balance or equal weight, importance, or the like; equilibrium. |
| maunder |
to speak in an aimless or foolish way; babble. |
| modus operandi |
a method of accomplishing something; way of working. |
| omnibus |
concerning or including a large collection of things. |
| parlance |
manner of speaking or writing, especially word choice; vernacular. |
| pedantic |
making or characterized by an excessive display of learnedness, or overly insistent on scholarly details and formalities. |
| peroration |
the concluding part of a speech in which there is a summing up of the principal points. |
| raffish |
carelessly unconventional or disreputable, sometimes appealingly so. |
| sequester |
to remove into protection and isolation; seclude. |
| shunt |
to turn or move aside or out of the way; divert. |
| transpose |
to exchange the position or order of (two things). |