| adamant |
unlikely to change in response to any request or argument; firmly decided or fixed; unyielding. |
| argot |
the vocabulary or jargon characteristic of a specific group or class, especially of criminals. |
| coddle |
to simmer in water that is almost at the boiling point. |
| comity |
mutual courtesy and respectful treatment among people or nations. |
| disallow |
to refuse to allow or admit; reject. |
| emulous |
filled with the desire to equal or surpass. |
| extralegal |
not regulated or permitted by law; outside of legal authority. |
| imprimatur |
any official permission or sanction. |
| inadvertent |
not planned or intended; unintentional. |
| 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. |
| obscurantism |
a deliberate lack of clarity or directness of expression, as in certain styles of art or literature. |
| quotidian |
happening every day or once a day. |
| Sabbatarian |
one who observes the Sabbath on Saturday, as Jews and certain Christians. |
| triage |
a system of determining priority of medical treatment, on the basis of need, chances of survival, and the like, to victims on a battlefield or in a hospital emergency ward. |
| voluble |
characterized by a steady flow of words; fluent; talkative. |