| animus |
a feeling or attitude of enmity. |
| askance |
with distrust or suspicion. |
| castellated |
constructed with turrets and battlements like a castle. |
| demarcate |
to set apart or separate, as if with boundaries. |
| doyen |
the senior or highest-ranking male member of a group. |
| effluvium |
an outflow of usually invisible, foul-smelling vapor or gas. |
| effrontery |
shameless impudence; insolence. |
| ensconce |
to position (oneself) firmly or comfortably. |
| hackneyed |
made trite or commonplace by overuse, as an expression or phrase. |
| inculcate |
to cause to accept an idea or value; imbue. |
| inflection |
change that occurs in the form of words to show a grammatical characteristic such as the tense of a verb, the number of a noun, or the degree of an adjective or adverb. |
| pneumatic |
of, using, or concerning air or other gases. |
| recurve |
to bend or curve back or backward, as the ends of certain shooting bows. |
| shunt |
to turn or move aside or out of the way; divert. |
| uxorious |
excessively or foolishly devoted to one's wife, and often thereby submissive to her. |