| abeyance |
temporary suspension or cessation. |
| bellicose |
easily incited to quarrel or fight; belligerent. |
| cantankerous |
irritable, stubborn, and quarrelsome. |
| demotic |
of or relating to the common people; popular. |
| dilatory |
used to cause a delay. |
| disquisition |
a formal, often lengthy, oral or written discussion of a subject. |
| engender |
to create or give rise to. |
| figurehead |
a person whose title sounds important but who has no real power. |
| 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. |
| louche |
of questionable decency, morality, or taste; shady; disreputable. |
| pelf |
money or wealth, usually regarded with disapproval or contempt. |
| pinchbeck |
false, sham, or counterfeit. |
| prerogative |
an exclusive right or privilege derived from one's office, position, age, citizenship, birth, or the like. |
| pretentious |
assuming or marked by an air of importance or superiority that is unwarranted. |
| 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. |