| ambivalence |
the presence of conflicting feelings, such as love and hate, toward a person, thing, or situation. |
| cite |
to use the words of someone else; quote. |
| consort |
a wife or husband, especially of a royal personage. |
| coterie |
a small, exclusive group of friends or associates with similar interest or activities; clique. |
| diffidence |
reticence; shyness. |
| foreshadow |
to signal or indicate beforehand; presage; prefigure. |
| Philistine |
(sometimes lower case) one who is ignorant of, smugly indifferent to, or hostile to aesthetic and cultural values. |
| prohibitive |
serving as a preventative. |
| protocol |
the proper or agreed upon way of conducting oneself or of doing something. |
| retention |
the act or process of maintaining the possession or use of. |
| taciturn |
habitually silent and uncommunicative. |
| temperance |
habitual moderation in the use of alcoholic drink, or complete abstinence. |
| theorem |
a proposition or idea that can be proven by other formulas or propositions in mathematics, or deduced from accepted premises or assumptions in logic. |
| tryst |
a meeting held at a specified time and place, especially a secret meeting of lovers; rendezvous. |