| animus |
a feeling or attitude of enmity. |
| appellative |
a descriptive name or title, as "Terrible" in "Ivan the Terrible". |
| apprehensive |
feeling fearful about future events. |
| ascertain |
to learn without question; determine. |
| bellicose |
easily incited to quarrel or fight; belligerent. |
| comity |
mutual courtesy and respectful treatment among people or nations. |
| espouse |
to take up, hold, or commit oneself to (a cause, idea, or belief); embrace. |
| impute |
to ascribe or attribute to a source or cause. |
| inadvertent |
not planned or intended; unintentional. |
| ineptitude |
incompetence; lack of skill. |
| laconic |
using very few words; succinct; terse. |
| parsimonious |
excessively frugal; stingy. |
| solipsism |
the self-centered habit of interpreting and judging all things exclusively according to one's own concepts of meaning and value. |
| splenetic |
ill-tempered or spiteful. |
| stickler |
one who must observe or conform to something (usually followed by "for"). |