| alacrity |
willing promptness. |
| beguile |
to deceive or cheat by using guile. |
| compatriot |
a fellow citizen. |
| contortion |
a straining or twisting by the intellect; mental gymnastics. |
| defunct |
no longer in existence or use; dead; extinct. |
| disputatious |
inclined to quarrel or provoke argument. |
| docile |
obedient and easy to manage. |
| fervid |
heated or impassioned; intensely enthusiastic. |
| mania |
an extreme desire or enthusiasm. |
| recapitulate |
to briefly review (the main points) of a spoken or written exchange or communication. |
| refraction |
the bending of rays or waves of light, heat, sound, or the like when passed obliquely from one medium to another with a different rate of transmission. |
| rhetoric |
the art, ability, or study of using language effectively in speech or writing, especially to influence or persuade one's audience. |
| subsidiary |
assisting or supplementing. |
| tangent |
a line of discussion leading away from the original topic; digression. |
| vaporize |
to cause to become or diffuse as a vapor or gas; atomize; evaporate. |