| bellicose |
easily incited to quarrel or fight; belligerent. |
| boudoir |
a woman's private sitting room or bedroom. |
| canard |
a deliberately false story or rumor, usually defamatory to someone. |
| cloture |
in U.S. parliamentary procedure, a method of ending debate and causing an immediate vote on the matter being discussed. |
| concur |
to share the same opinion; agree. |
| fealty |
faithfulness or loyalty. |
| feckless |
weak or incompetent; ineffective. |
| flummox |
(informal) to confuse or puzzle. |
| impugn |
to call into question; challenge or try to discredit. |
| impute |
to ascribe or attribute to a source or cause. |
| neologism |
a new word, phrase, or usage. |
| profligate |
totally given over to immoral and shameful pursuits; dissolute. |
| regicide |
the murderer of a king. |
| supine |
lying with the face upward. |
| syntax |
the word order or pattern of word order in a sentence. |