| cogitate |
to think over something carefully or at length. |
| comely |
pleasing in appearance. |
| contagion |
the spreading of a disease by contact or close association. |
| defunct |
no longer in existence or use; dead; extinct. |
| exculpate |
to free (a person or group) from guilt or blame, or from the suspicion of guilt or blame. |
| flippant |
disrespectful or indifferent to someone or something worthy of respect; shallowly humorous. |
| fluctuate |
to vary or change irregularly; rise and fall. |
| grandiose |
pretentious or pompous. |
| staunch2 |
unwaveringly firm or loyal. |
| subsidiary |
assisting or supplementing. |
| surrogate |
acting as, or considered to be, a substitute or replacement. |
| theorem |
a proposition or idea that can be proven by other formulas or propositions in mathematics, or deduced from accepted premises or assumptions in logic. |
| tome |
a large thick book, often one of a multivolume scholarly work. |
| turbid |
clouded or murky because of stirred-up particles or sediment; muddy. |
| unintelligible |
not able to be understood, as spoken or written language. |