Glib - Articulate but insincere and shallow

hypocritical - professing feelings or virtues one does not have

Jactitate - To jactitate is to toss around restlessly.

Longueur - a tedious passage in a book or other work

Nabob - a Muslim official or governor under the Mogul empire

Placebo - a substance that has no therapeutic effect, used as a control in testing new drugs.

                       a measure designed merely to calm or please someone.

Quacksalver One who pretends to possess medical or other skills

Refulgence - a radiant or resplendent quality or state : brilliance

Surreptitious - Done secretly, acting in a stealthy way

Tontine

an annuity shared by subscribers to a loan or common fund, the shares increasing as subscribers die until the last survivor enjoys the whole income

  • a scheme for life insurance in which the beneficiaries are those who survive and maintain a policy to the end of a given period