to slow down; to impede; to make someone late / to delay; to postpone when something takes place; to put off

temporary

action; behavior

to act

makeshift, stopgap / (proscribed) cowardly

being makeshift

palliative care

solution, settlement / (music) Progression from dissonance to consonance; a chord to which such progression is made; resolution

(transitive) solve, resolve, settle (a problem, a trouble, a criminal case) / (intransitive) be solved, be settled / (intransitive) can be solved; be soluble

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend