| abstruse |
difficult to comprehend or understand; esoteric; arcane. |
| disabuse |
to free (a person) from misconception or deception; set straight. |
| epistemology |
the branch of philosophy dealing with the origin, nature, and limits of human knowledge. |
| equivocal |
having at least two plausible alternative meanings, often intentionally so in order to deceive or avoid commitment; ambiguous. |
| gnomic |
short and pithy, as an aphorism. |
| halcyon |
tranquil; peaceful; calm. |
| humanism |
a doctrine or mode of thought that gives highest importance to human dignity, values, potentials, and achievements. |
| iatrogenic |
caused by a physician or medical treatment, especially from drugs or surgery. |
| inchoate |
partially or imperfectly developed. |
| 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. |
| lorgnette |
eyeglasses, such as opera glasses, that have a short handle by which one holds them in position. |
| quondam |
having been in the past; former. |
| sententious |
using or marked by pompous, high-flown moralizing. |
| sepsis |
infection, especially by pus-forming bacteria in the blood or tissues. |
| solipsism |
the self-centered habit of interpreting and judging all things exclusively according to one's own concepts of meaning and value. |