| animus |
a feeling or attitude of enmity. |
| apposite |
fitting; pertinent; appropriate. |
| baneful |
causing or leading to death, destruction, or ruin; harmful or deadly. |
| barrage |
a great number of things coming one after another very quickly. |
| coir |
the fiber made from coconut husks, used for matting, rope, or the like. |
| disheveled |
not neat; messy. |
| entreat |
to beg for something, or to do something. |
| gloaming |
late evening; dusk; twilight. |
| impute |
to ascribe or attribute to a source or cause. |
| loll |
to hang down loosely; dangle. |
| malingerer |
one who pretends to be ill or injured, especially in order to avoid work or duty. |
| oligarchy |
a government or state in which only a relatively few people or members of a family have real power. |
| putrefaction |
the act or process of rotting or decomposing. |
| Saturnalia |
an occasion of unrestrained revelry. |
| stately |
dignified. |