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Abeyance

(noun) - a temporary suspension of activity

Abstinence

(noun) - a voluntary refrain from eating certain foods or drinks or from doing something pleasant but not good for you

Abstruse

(adjective) - hard to understand or grasp

Adumbrate

(verb) - to suggest partly, to give a hint of things to come, to foreshadow vaguely

Alacrity

(noun) - cheerful readiness, liveliness or eagerness

Ambulatory

(adjective) - able to walk or move about

Apocryphal

(adjective) - false, spurious, of a doubtful origin

Arbiter

(noun) - a judge, one who decides

Ascetic

(adjective) - hermitlike, self - denying, austere (minimalist)

Assiduous

(adjective) - hardwork, busy, diligent

Capricious

(adjective) whimsical, fanciful, impulsive

Castigate

(verb) to punish, chastise, criticize severely

Chary

(adjective) careful, cautious, wary

Chicanery

(noun) deception or trickery

Chimerical

(adjective) wildly fanciful, absurd

circumlocution

(noun) wordy language, an indirect, roundabout expression

contentious

(adjective) argumentative over a point, quarrelsome

Belie

(verb) to run counter to, to show something as false

Brook

(verb) to tolerate, to put up with something

debacle

(noun) a disaster or violent breakdown