| blatant |
completely obvious or undisguised, sometimes offensively so. |
| canard |
a deliberately false story or rumor, usually defamatory to someone. |
| cavalier |
carefree and offhand; nonchalant. |
| comity |
mutual courtesy and respectful treatment among people or nations. |
| doyen |
the senior or highest-ranking male member of a group. |
| epicene |
sharing the traits of both sexes. |
| ineptitude |
incompetence; lack of skill. |
| 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. |
| intersperse |
to place or scatter among other things. |
| jeremiad |
a long complaint about life or one's situation; lamentation. |
| maunder |
to speak in an aimless or foolish way; babble. |
| peroration |
the concluding part of a speech in which there is a summing up of the principal points. |
| quondam |
having been in the past; former. |
| saturnine |
gloomy, sullen, or cynical in temperament or appearance. |
| woebegone |
displaying or full of distress. |