| abide |
to put up with; stand. |
| animus |
a feeling or attitude of enmity. |
| blatant |
completely obvious or undisguised, sometimes offensively so. |
| cloture |
in U.S. parliamentary procedure, a method of ending debate and causing an immediate vote on the matter being discussed. |
| coeval |
coinciding in time of origin or existence; contemporary. |
| concur |
to share the same opinion; agree. |
| dilatory |
used to cause a delay. |
| disabuse |
to free (a person) from misconception or deception; set straight. |
| disquisition |
a formal, often lengthy, oral or written discussion of a subject. |
| goad |
something that spurs a person to action; stimulus. |
| incredulous |
not able to believe something. |
| nonfeasance |
in law, failure to perform a required duty, as by a public official. |
| parlous |
full of dangers or risks; perilous. |
| peroration |
the concluding part of a speech in which there is a summing up of the principal points. |
| shunt |
to turn or move aside or out of the way; divert. |