| belabor |
to continue excessive efforts on or excessive discussion of. |
| bellicose |
easily incited to quarrel or fight; belligerent. |
| blatant |
completely obvious or undisguised, sometimes offensively so. |
| centripetal |
forced or moving inward toward a center point or axis. |
| demarcate |
to set apart or separate, as if with boundaries. |
| dilatory |
used to cause a delay. |
| disheveled |
not neat; messy. |
| garble |
to mix up, distort, or confuse (a message, translation, or the like); cause to be disordered or unintelligible. |
| inflection |
change that occurs in the form of words to show a grammatical characteristic such as the tense of a verb, the number of a noun, or the degree of an adjective or adverb. |
| inveigle |
to entice or ensnare by clever talk or flattery. |
| oblique |
not direct or straightforward in intent, means, or achievement; indirect or devious. |
| obscurantism |
a deliberate lack of clarity or directness of expression, as in certain styles of art or literature. |
| obtrude |
to thrust or force (oneself, one's concerns, or one's opinions) on another or others without being asked. |
| plaudit |
(often plural) an enthusiastic show of approval, such as a round of applause or a very favorable review. |
| sanguine |
having an optimistic temperament or outlook. |