| abeyance |
temporary suspension or cessation. |
| apocryphal |
of dubious authorship or authority. |
| apropos |
appropriate; relevant; opportune. |
| belie |
to give a false impression of. |
| boorish |
rude; ill-mannered; crude. |
| commodious |
comfortably spacious; roomy. |
| extenuate |
to reduce the magnitude or seriousness of (a fault or offense) by offering partial excuses. |
| hackneyed |
made trite or commonplace by overuse, as an expression or phrase. |
| homily |
any discourse offering moral advice or admonitions. |
| inanition |
a state of exhaustion caused by a lack of nourishment. |
| 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. |
| intelligentsia |
the elite class of highly learned people within a society, or those who consider themselves part of such a class. |
| mésalliance |
marriage with someone of lower social standing than oneself. |
| opiate |
something that induces relaxation, calm, or stupor. |
| shunt |
to turn or move aside or out of the way; divert. |