| bellicose |
easily incited to quarrel or fight; belligerent. |
| benign |
causing little or no harm. |
| burgeon |
to start to grow; send forth shoots, leaves, buds, or the like (often followed by "out" or "forth"). |
| dawdle |
to waste time; be slow. |
| deadeye |
an expert shooter. |
| disaffection |
an absence or loss of good will, faith, or loyalty, especially toward a government, principle, or the like. |
| etiolate |
to weaken, especially through deprivation of normal development. |
| guru |
in a cult or religious movement, a spiritual guide or leader, sometimes believed to be divine. |
| inculcate |
to cause to accept an idea or value; imbue. |
| jubilate |
to feel joyful; rejoice; exult. |
| malapropism |
the humorous or ridiculous misuse of a word, especially by using a word that sounds similar to the correct word, but whose meaning is inappropriate. |
| obscurantism |
a deliberate lack of clarity or directness of expression, as in certain styles of art or literature. |
| pedantic |
making or characterized by an excessive display of learnedness, or overly insistent on scholarly details and formalities. |
| stickler |
one who must observe or conform to something (usually followed by "for"). |
| supine |
lying with the face upward. |