| amity |
friendly and peaceful relations; good will. |
| appose |
to place next to or side by side; juxtapose. |
| atonement |
the act of making reparation for a sin, crime, error, or the like. |
| attune |
to adjust so as to be harmonious. |
| barrage |
a great number of things coming one after another very quickly. |
| convoluted |
complex; intricate. |
| gloaming |
late evening; dusk; twilight. |
| glut |
a greater supply or amount than is needed. |
| incursion |
a raid or sudden invasion. |
| panegyric |
a formal speech or piece of writing devoted to publicly praising a person or thing. |
| peroration |
the concluding part of a speech in which there is a summing up of the principal points. |
| reprisal |
injury inflicted in retaliation for injury received, as in war; revenge. |
| sententious |
using or marked by pompous, high-flown moralizing. |
| stickler |
one who must observe or conform to something (usually followed by "for"). |
| untoward |
unexpected and unfortunate. |