| abstruse |
difficult to comprehend or understand; esoteric; arcane. |
| benign |
causing little or no harm. |
| castellated |
constructed with turrets and battlements like a castle. |
| centripetal |
forced or moving inward toward a center point or axis. |
| cloture |
in U.S. parliamentary procedure, a method of ending debate and causing an immediate vote on the matter being discussed. |
| effluvium |
an outflow of usually invisible, foul-smelling vapor or gas. |
| extralegal |
not regulated or permitted by law; outside of legal authority. |
| indomitable |
too strong to be subdued or discouraged; unconquerable. |
| ingenuous |
having or showing simplicity and lack of sophistication; artless. |
| intersperse |
to place or scatter among other things. |
| lachrymose |
weeping, tending to weep readily, or being on the point of tears; tearful. |
| meretricious |
appealing or attracting in a cheap, showy, or shallow way. |
| spurn |
to reject, refuse, or treat with scorn; disdain; despise. |
| stridulate |
to produce a shrill grating, creaking, or chirping sound by rubbing certain parts of the body together, as some insects do. |
| uxorious |
excessively or foolishly devoted to one's wife, and often thereby submissive to her. |