| capitulate |
to surrender or acquiesce. |
| diminution |
the act, process, or result of decreasing or declining. |
| ensue |
to occur as the result of an earlier event. |
| feign |
to pretend or fake; put on a false show of. |
| gentry |
people who come from families of high social standing. |
| infelicity |
the quality or condition of being inappropriate, or unfortunate in the given circumstances. |
| interrelate |
to place in or come into a shared, mutual, or reciprocal relationship. |
| laxity |
the state or quality of being careless or slack; looseness. |
| natty |
(informal) neat, well-groomed, and smartly dressed; dapper. |
| onus |
an unwanted but necessary task; burden. |
| palpable |
easy to sense or perceive; obvious. |
| promontory |
a high cliff that sticks out into a large body of water or that rises above an area of lower land. |
| rabid |
extreme in opinion or action; fanatical. |
| satirical |
containing or marked by the use of parody or irony to ridicule or denounce human corruptness or folly. |
| singularity |
an unusual trait or quality. |