| agog |
highly excited and full of anticipation. |
| amity |
friendly and peaceful relations; good will. |
| bellicose |
easily incited to quarrel or fight; belligerent. |
| canny |
difficult to fool or take advantage of; shrewd; wary; clever. |
| cloture |
in U.S. parliamentary procedure, a method of ending debate and causing an immediate vote on the matter being discussed. |
| corporeal |
having to do with a physical body; bodily. |
| effluvium |
an outflow of usually invisible, foul-smelling vapor or gas. |
| glut |
a greater supply or amount than is needed. |
| gnomic |
short and pithy, as an aphorism. |
| hackneyed |
made trite or commonplace by overuse, as an expression or phrase. |
| imprimatur |
any official permission or sanction. |
| indurate |
to make hard in texture; harden. |
| parlance |
manner of speaking or writing, especially word choice; vernacular. |
| pronate |
to turn or rotate (the hand or forearm) so that the palm of the hand faces down or backwards. |
| shyster |
a person, usually a lawyer, who uses underhanded, unethical methods. |