| askance |
with distrust or suspicion. |
| attune |
to adjust so as to be harmonious. |
| Byzantine |
characterized by complexity and intrigue. |
| contumacious |
stubbornly disobedient; insubordinate; rebellious. |
| demotic |
of or relating to the common people; popular. |
| descry |
to see or make out, especially something obscured or at a distance. |
| distraught |
mentally or emotionally unbalanced; crazed. |
| facetious |
not serious; humorous or frivolous. |
| indistinct |
not clearly perceived or perceiving. |
| indurate |
to make hard in texture; harden. |
| lachrymose |
weeping, tending to weep readily, or being on the point of tears; tearful. |
| nostrum |
a favorite but unproven scheme or theory, offered as a remedy for social or political problems; panacea. |
| parsimonious |
excessively frugal; stingy. |
| requite |
to retaliate for; strike back on account of. |
| triage |
a system of determining priority of medical treatment, on the basis of need, chances of survival, and the like, to victims on a battlefield or in a hospital emergency ward. |