| burgeon |
to start to grow; send forth shoots, leaves, buds, or the like (often followed by "out" or "forth"). |
| cantankerous |
irritable, stubborn, and quarrelsome. |
| condone |
to pardon, disregard, or overlook voluntarily or without condemning. |
| dawdle |
to waste time; be slow. |
| discountenance |
to embarrass or disconcert. |
| disheveled |
not neat; messy. |
| disquisition |
a formal, often lengthy, oral or written discussion of a subject. |
| electuary |
a drug mixed with honey, syrup, or the like to form a paste to be smeared on the teeth or gums of a sick animal. |
| hypocrisy |
the practice or an instance of stating or pretending to hold beliefs or principles that one does not actually live by; insincerity. |
| inanition |
a state of exhaustion caused by a lack of nourishment. |
| insularity |
the condition of being closed to new ideas or outside influences; narrow-mindedness. |
| pretentious |
assuming or marked by an air of importance or superiority that is unwarranted. |
| pronate |
to turn or rotate (the hand or forearm) so that the palm of the hand faces down or backwards. |
| quotidian |
happening every day or once a day. |
| stanch1 |
to cause (a liquid, especially blood) to stop flowing. |