| accretion |
the process of gradual increase or growth, especially by additions from the outside. |
| affidavit |
a written statement that is sworn in the presence of an authorized official to be true, used as legal evidence. |
| attenuate |
to cause to be thin, rarefied, or fine. |
| cloture |
in U.S. parliamentary procedure, a method of ending debate and causing an immediate vote on the matter being discussed. |
| debouch |
to advance out of a confined or narrow space such as a canyon into open country. |
| diatribe |
a bitter, abusive attack in speech or writing. |
| dissimulate |
to hide one's true feelings, intentions, or the like by pretense or hypocrisy. |
| doggerel |
trivial, crudely constructed verse. |
| epistemology |
the branch of philosophy dealing with the origin, nature, and limits of human knowledge. |
| garble |
to mix up, distort, or confuse (a message, translation, or the like); cause to be disordered or unintelligible. |
| impinge |
to encroach. |
| 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. |
| loll |
to hang down loosely; dangle. |
| peripatetic |
walking or traveling around; going from place to place; itinerant. |
| vouchsafe |
to grant or give with condescension or as a special favor. |