of a feeling or atmosphere so intense as to seem almost tangible

Example sentence: a palpable sense of loss

Example sentence: they described the outbreak of violence in the area as an aberration

Example sentence: our increasingly litigious society
litigant - a person involved in a lawsuit 

Example: "the nascent space industry"

filled with bitter criticism or malice.

Example sentence: vitriolic attacks on the politicians

mutual trust and friendship among people who spend a lot of time together.

Example sentence: "the enforced camaraderie of office life"

"‘I was suddenly sick in the back of their car’—it was years before he could confess his faux pas to them"
A blunder 

"you must demonstrate your moral timbre as a human being"

"even in my befuddled state I could see that they meant trouble"

"omens and prodigies abound in Livy's work"

rising in power or influence.

"ascendant moderate factions in the party"

gather together and confine (a group of people or things).

"the organizers were corralling the crowd into marching formation"

"the tenets of a democratic society"

"she espoused the causes of justice and freedom for all"

think deeply about something; meditate or reflect.

Example: "he stroked his beard and retired to cogitate"

gather or collect (something, especially information or approval).

Example : "the police struggled to garner sufficient evidence"

One of the idiosyncrasies of this printer is that you can't stop it once it has started.

Example: "he advised his team of officers to nurture the spirit of collegiality among them"

"it is axiomatic that dividends have to be financed"

 

the complete range or scope of something.

"the whole gamut of human emotion"

This new biography is the first to consider fully the writer's gestalt.

"the casual manner of his dismissal still rankles"

2.

ARCHAIC

(of a wound or sore) continue to be painful; fester.

"the wound is but skinned over and rankles still at the bottom"

"a vacuous smile"

SLA adopts the computer metaphor, which has become the most popular, widely-used nomenclature today.

"that is not germane to our theme"

"a proposal to abrogate temporarily the right to strike"

"they treat Scotland as a mere appendage of England

"his ubiquitous influence was felt by all the family"

a thing that existed before or logically precedes another.

"some antecedents to the African novel might exist in Africa's oral traditions"

"the programme envisions designers as agentive, social citizens"

"a classic vignette of embassy life"

"the White Paper makes trenchant criticisms of health authorities"

"this argument is clearly untenable"

His approach to acting is visceral rather than intellectual.

"computer technology is an adjunct to learning"

"English speakers often elide the vowel completely"

2.

join together; merge.

"whole periods of time are elided into a few seconds of screen time"

"the careers of those complicit in the cover-up were blighted"

"Germany was united under Prussian hegemony after 1871"

"one of his little idiosyncrasies was always preferring to be in the car first"

the coexistence of many possible meanings for a word or phrase.

"to my chagrin, he was nowhere to be seen"

"a classic vignette of embassy life"

"even the parsimonious Joe paid for drinks all round"

"his ubiquitous influence was felt by all the family"

Synonyms- omnipresent, ever present 

self-evident or unquestionable.

"it is axiomatic that dividends have to be financed"

"the urban crisis conflates  a number of different economic, political, and social issues"

"consonance between conservation measures and existing agricultural practice"

verb FORMAL

hold and state as one's opinion.

"‘The man is a genius,’ he opined"

"the White Paper makes trenchant criticisms of health authorities"

"infant teachers will be urged to concentrate on reading, writing, oracy and numeracy"

gerund or present participle: futzing

waste time; idle or busy oneself aimlessly.

"mother futzed around in the kitchen"

"teachers at the chalkface"

"they had recently matriculated as undergraduates at Jesus College"

"students had to traipse all over London to attend lectures"

walk about casually or needlessly.

"there's people traipsing in and out all the time"

"a bulbous nose"

"she's still pining for him"

come together to form one mass or whole.

"the puddles had coalesced into shallow streams"

"doom and gloom merchants who denigrate their own country"