| abeyance |
temporary suspension or cessation. |
| augury |
the art or practice or an instance of predicting the future or obtaining hidden knowledge by interpreting omens. |
| beatify |
to admire or exalt as superior. |
| bellicose |
easily incited to quarrel or fight; belligerent. |
| commodious |
comfortably spacious; roomy. |
| contumacious |
stubbornly disobedient; insubordinate; rebellious. |
| engender |
to create or give rise to. |
| equivocal |
having at least two plausible alternative meanings, often intentionally so in order to deceive or avoid commitment; ambiguous. |
| frangible |
easy to break; breakable; fragile. |
| harrow |
to go over or break up with a harrow. |
| lacuna |
a gap or omitted part. |
| mirabile dictu |
(Latin) wonderful to say or relate. |
| nonplus |
to cause (someone) to be unable to think of what to say, do, or decide; perplex; bewilder. |
| parturient |
giving birth or about to give birth; in labor. |
| solipsism |
the self-centered habit of interpreting and judging all things exclusively according to one's own concepts of meaning and value. |