| advantageous |
giving a benefit or advantage; helpful; useful. |
| discrete |
separate and distinct. |
| emend |
to correct or improve (written text), especially by removing errors; edit. |
| grandiloquence |
speech that is pretentious, pompous, or excessively mannered. |
| grievous |
causing emotional or physical suffering; painful. |
| hydraulic |
of, concerning, operated by, or moved by water or another liquid under pressure. |
| imitative |
of, involving, or characterized by reproduction or copying; not original. |
| inhibit |
to hold back, restrain, prevent, or tend to do so. |
| invalidate |
to deprive a claim of force or effect by negating its factual or legal basis. |
| preemptive |
of or relating to a strike or attack such as a bid in bridge or a military attack, made in anticipation of or to prevent an opposing strike. |
| presentiment |
an intuition or sense of something about to happen; foreboding. |
| rivulet |
a tiny stream or brook; trickle. |
| vociferous |
crying out, especially in protest; vocal; clamorous. |
| volatility |
the quality or condition of being highly changeable or inconsistent. |
| vouch |
to promise to be true, real, or correct (usually followed by "for"). |