| concur |
to share the same opinion; agree. |
| dawdle |
to waste time; be slow. |
| deign |
to consider some act to be appropriate or in keeping with one's dignity; condescend. |
| fixation |
an obsession, especially one that interferes with normal functioning. |
| homily |
any discourse offering moral advice or admonitions. |
| intelligentsia |
the elite class of highly learned people within a society, or those who consider themselves part of such a class. |
| intersperse |
to place or scatter among other things. |
| luminary |
a famous, important, or inspirational person. |
| nonpareil |
a person or thing whose excellence is unequaled; paragon. |
| raffish |
carelessly unconventional or disreputable, sometimes appealingly so. |
| reprisal |
injury inflicted in retaliation for injury received, as in war; revenge. |
| sequester |
to remove into protection and isolation; seclude. |
| shunt |
to turn or move aside or out of the way; divert. |
| solipsism |
the self-centered habit of interpreting and judging all things exclusively according to one's own concepts of meaning and value. |
| vouchsafe |
to grant or give with condescension or as a special favor. |