listless \LIST-lis\, adjective:
Having no desire or inclination; indifferent; heedless; spiritless.
--LISTLESSLY, adverb -- LISTLESSNESS, noun

I was listless, and desponding.
-- Swift

ruminate \ROO-muh-nayt\, intransitive verb. To chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly chewed and swallowed."Cattle free to ruminate." --Wordsworth

. To think again and again; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to reflect

transitive verb

. To chew over again

. To meditate or ponder over; to muse on

They come, these scholars, in baseball hats clamped over bald pates or white hair, and polo shirts stretched over bellies more intimate with beer than situps, to ruminate on the game

cloy \KLOY\, transitive verb

 To weary by excess, especially of sweetness, richness, pleasure, etc

intransitive verb
To become distasteful through an excess usually of something originally pleasing

The opulence, the music, the gouty food -- all start to cloy my senses

halcyon \HAL-see-uhn\, noun:
 A kingfisher.
 A mythical bird, identified with the kingfisher, that was fabled to nest at sea about the time of the winter solstice and to calm the waves during incubation.

adjective:
 Calm; quiet; peaceful; undisturbed; happy; as, "deep, halcyon repose."
 Marked by peace and prosperity; as, "halcyon years."

sub rosa \suhb-ROH-zuh\, adverb:
 Secretly; privately; confidentially.

adjective:
 Designed to be secret or confidential; secretive; private.

Unlike progressive educators of the past, who openly proclaimed their goals, today's multiculturalists are generally unwilling to engage the wider public in open debate about their methods, preferring to promote their agenda sub rosa.

disparate \DIS-puh-rit; dis-PAIR-it\, adjective. Fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind.
. Composed of or including markedly dissimilar elements.

Science at its best isolates a common element underlying many seemingly disparate phenomena.

fustian \FUHS-chuhn\, noun:
. A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.
. An inflated style of writing or speech; pompous or pretentious language.

adjective:
. Made of fustian.
. Pompous; ridiculously inflated; bombastic.

Don't squander the court's patience puffing your cheeks up on stately bombast and lofty fustian. Speak plainly!