| askance |
with distrust or suspicion. |
| chary |
not dispensing freely. |
| deign |
to consider some act to be appropriate or in keeping with one's dignity; condescend. |
| denigrate |
to deny the worth of; sneer at; belittle. |
| discountenance |
to embarrass or disconcert. |
| divergence |
the act of separating and moving or leading in different directions. |
| exegesis |
a critical explanation or interpretive analysis, especially of religious texts. |
| extrude |
to force out; expel. |
| guru |
in a cult or religious movement, a spiritual guide or leader, sometimes believed to be divine. |
| halcyon |
tranquil; peaceful; calm. |
| harbinger |
someone or something that signals or foreshadows a later arrival or occurrence; herald; forerunner. |
| inanition |
a state of exhaustion caused by a lack of nourishment. |
| nonfeasance |
in law, failure to perform a required duty, as by a public official. |
| oligarchy |
a government or state in which only a relatively few people or members of a family have real power. |
| rapacious |
capable of capturing and eating live prey; predacious. |