cunctation \kuhngk-TEY-shuhn\, noun:
Delay; tardiness.
Lord Eldon however was personally answerable for unnecessary and culpable cunctation, as he called it in protracting the arguments of counsel, and in deferring judgment from day to day, from term to term, and from year to year after the arguments had closed and he had irrevocably decided in his own mind what the judgment should be.
-- Baron John Campbell, Lives of Lord Lyndhurst and Lord Brougham
"What it's about," Goldman said, with tantalizing cunctation, "is a whole lot of things, as a matter of fact."
-- Philip Kerr, The Shot
Cunctation stems from the Latin word cunctātiōn- meaning "delay" or "hesitation".
I am not sure exactly the prounciation of this word. I don't think their diagram is easy to say in English. I am giving an alternate one to see if it is easier to wrap your mouth around. I am not sure that the phonetics they give are helpful. I think the way they want you to pronounce it is more like Welsh or northern European, not English.
here is my alternative... with the silent "g
kunk/tation ?