| animus |
a feeling or attitude of enmity. |
| asperity |
harshness or roughness, especially of tone or manner. |
| Byzantine |
characterized by complexity and intrigue. |
| coeval |
coinciding in time of origin or existence; contemporary. |
| cynosure |
a thing or person that is the center of attention and admiration. |
| disingenuous |
not candid or sincere. |
| gnomic |
short and pithy, as an aphorism. |
| kismet |
destiny, fortune, or fate. |
| laudatory |
expressing praise. |
| laureate |
one honored for achievement in a particular field or by a particular award, especially in the arts or sciences. |
| meretricious |
appealing or attracting in a cheap, showy, or shallow way. |
| pungency |
sharpness or bite in taste or smell. |
| regicide |
the murderer of a king. |
| Saturnalia |
an occasion of unrestrained revelry. |
| spurn |
to reject, refuse, or treat with scorn; disdain; despise. |