| abeyance |
temporary suspension or cessation. |
| astute |
keen in understanding and judgment; shrewd. |
| centripetal |
forced or moving inward toward a center point or axis. |
| corollary |
a readily drawn conclusion; deduction or inference. |
| crass |
lacking in sensitivity or refinement; crude. |
| demarcate |
to set apart or separate, as if with boundaries. |
| deposition |
a sworn statement, usually in writing, for use as testimony by an absent witness in a court of law. |
| deracinate |
to pull up by or as if by the roots; uproot; isolate; exile. |
| desiccate |
to remove the moisture in (food) so as to preserve it. |
| extrinsic |
not inherent or essential; extraneous. |
| idiosyncrasy |
a characteristic of temperament, habit, or physical structure particular to a given individual or group; peculiarity. |
| inflection |
change that occurs in the form of words to show a grammatical characteristic such as the tense of a verb, the number of a noun, or the degree of an adjective or adverb. |
| jeremiad |
a long complaint about life or one's situation; lamentation. |
| perilous |
causing or involving great danger; risky; hazardous. |
| recondite |
involving profound concepts and complexities; not easily understood. |