| abeyance |
temporary suspension or cessation. |
| appellation |
a name, title, or other designation. |
| asperity |
harshness or roughness, especially of tone or manner. |
| debauch |
to lead or seduce into immorality or intemperance; corrupt. |
| eulogy |
a spoken or written tribute, especially to honor a dead person; high praise; formal commendation. |
| 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. |
| lacuna |
a gap or omitted part. |
| nostrum |
a favorite but unproven scheme or theory, offered as a remedy for social or political problems; panacea. |
| pandemic |
a widespread outbreak of disease that afflicts many people over different continents. |
| quadrant |
any of the four parts that result when an area is divided by two lines, real or imaginary, that intersect each other at right angles. |
| quotidian |
happening every day or once a day. |
| recidivism |
chronic return to bad habits, especially criminal relapse. |
| relict |
a plant, animal, or geological feature that has survived in a considerably changed environment. |
| reprobate |
an evil or lawless person, often beyond hope of redemption. |
| travesty |
something so grotesque or inferior as to seem a parody. |