| astute |
keen in understanding and judgment; shrewd. |
| barrage |
a great number of things coming one after another very quickly. |
| coddle |
to simmer in water that is almost at the boiling point. |
| diatribe |
a bitter, abusive attack in speech or writing. |
| dissimulate |
to hide one's true feelings, intentions, or the like by pretense or hypocrisy. |
| engender |
to create or give rise to. |
| forbear |
to keep or abstain from (an action or utterance). |
| guru |
in a cult or religious movement, a spiritual guide or leader, sometimes believed to be divine. |
| malinger |
to pretend illness or injury, especially in order to be excused from duty or work. |
| nonpareil |
a person or thing whose excellence is unequaled; paragon. |
| oblivious |
not conscious or paying attention; unknowing or unaware (usually followed by "to" or "of"). |
| plaudit |
(often plural) an enthusiastic show of approval, such as a round of applause or a very favorable review. |
| quotidian |
happening every day or once a day. |
| recurve |
to bend or curve back or backward, as the ends of certain shooting bows. |
| sententious |
using or marked by pompous, high-flown moralizing. |