| aplomb |
great self-confidence, composure, or poise. |
| coalesce |
to grow together or unite to form a single body or organization; unify; fuse. |
| deter |
to stop or discourage from some action by creating doubt or fear. |
| disallow |
to refuse to allow or admit; reject. |
| disheveled |
not neat; messy. |
| dissemble |
to disguise or hide behind a false semblance; conceal the true nature or state of. |
| divergence |
the act of separating and moving or leading in different directions. |
| extempore |
without plan or preparation; impromptu or improvised. |
| impromptu |
without advance plan or preparation; spontaneously. |
| incursion |
a raid or sudden invasion. |
| 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. |
| interdict |
to deter or impede by the steady use of firepower. |
| laudatory |
expressing praise. |
| loll |
to hang down loosely; dangle. |
| recurve |
to bend or curve back or backward, as the ends of certain shooting bows. |