| alacrity |
willing promptness. |
| encumbrance |
something or someone that hinders or burdens; impediment. |
| fiscal |
pertaining to public or governmental finances. |
| frivolous |
unworthy of serious consideration or merit; trivial or silly. |
| grapple |
to grasp, twist, or wrestle in close combat. |
| imponderable |
unable to be evaluated or calculated accurately. |
| incipient |
starting to exist or become apparent; in an early stage of development. |
| inexplicable |
unable to be explained or interpreted. |
| inverse |
opposite or reversed in position, order, direction, nature, or effect. |
| malign |
to speak badly of or tell harmful lies about. |
| mendacity |
a tendency to lie; untruthfulness. |
| patrician |
of, concerning, or belonging to an aristocratic class. |
| sermonize |
to preach, or to speak as if doing so. |
| succumb |
to give in or give way to a fatal illness, superior force, overwhelming desire, or the like; yield. |
| tryst |
a meeting held at a specified time and place, especially a secret meeting of lovers; rendezvous. |