| assail |
to attack with vigor or violence; assault. |
| baneful |
causing or leading to death, destruction, or ruin; harmful or deadly. |
| blithe |
indifferent or casual; unconcerned. |
| contumacious |
stubbornly disobedient; insubordinate; rebellious. |
| cynosure |
a thing or person that is the center of attention and admiration. |
| deter |
to stop or discourage from some action by creating doubt or fear. |
| harbinger |
someone or something that signals or foreshadows a later arrival or occurrence; herald; forerunner. |
| libertine |
acting without restraint; dissolute; amoral. |
| munificent |
having or showing great generosity. |
| opprobrious |
expressing condemnation or scorn; accusing of shameful behavior. |
| pliant |
easily flexed; supple. |
| rapacious |
capable of capturing and eating live prey; predacious. |
| reprisal |
injury inflicted in retaliation for injury received, as in war; revenge. |
| solipsism |
the self-centered habit of interpreting and judging all things exclusively according to one's own concepts of meaning and value. |
| vitiate |
to harm the quality of; mar; spoil. |