| amity |
friendly and peaceful relations; good will. |
| belie |
to give a false impression of. |
| boorish |
rude; ill-mannered; crude. |
| boudoir |
a woman's private sitting room or bedroom. |
| canny |
difficult to fool or take advantage of; shrewd; wary; clever. |
| curmudgeon |
an irritable or ill-tempered person. |
| dearth |
a shortage or scarcity of something; lack. |
| discountenance |
to embarrass or disconcert. |
| impute |
to ascribe or attribute to a source or cause. |
| jeremiad |
a long complaint about life or one's situation; lamentation. |
| louche |
of questionable decency, morality, or taste; shady; disreputable. |
| obscurantism |
a deliberate lack of clarity or directness of expression, as in certain styles of art or literature. |
| phlegmatic |
not given to shows of emotion or interest; slow to excite. |
| pretentious |
assuming or marked by an air of importance or superiority that is unwarranted. |
| symbiosis |
a close association, usually a mutually beneficial relationship, between two dissimilar organisms. |