| astute |
keen in understanding and judgment; shrewd. |
| cession |
the act of formally giving up or signing over, as a territory; ceding. |
| conjoin |
to combine for a common purpose. |
| contretemps |
an embarrassing or unfortunate happening; mishap; mischance. |
| equivocal |
having at least two plausible alternative meanings, often intentionally so in order to deceive or avoid commitment; ambiguous. |
| fledge |
to grow flight feathers. |
| fracas |
a noisy disturbance or quarrel. |
| incumbent |
currently holding an office or position. |
| libertine |
acting without restraint; dissolute; amoral. |
| loll |
to hang down loosely; dangle. |
| maunder |
to speak in an aimless or foolish way; babble. |
| pedantic |
making or characterized by an excessive display of learnedness, or overly insistent on scholarly details and formalities. |
| rapacious |
capable of capturing and eating live prey; predacious. |
| solipsism |
the self-centered habit of interpreting and judging all things exclusively according to one's own concepts of meaning and value. |
| voluble |
characterized by a steady flow of words; fluent; talkative. |