| amity |
friendly and peaceful relations; good will. |
| assail |
to attack with vigor or violence; assault. |
| cognoscente |
someone who has exceptional knowledge in a given area, especially of fashion, literature, or the fine arts; connoisseur. |
| corollary |
a readily drawn conclusion; deduction or inference. |
| crass |
lacking in sensitivity or refinement; crude. |
| deter |
to stop or discourage from some action by creating doubt or fear. |
| doggerel |
trivial, crudely constructed verse. |
| extrinsic |
not inherent or essential; extraneous. |
| indolence |
the tendency to avoid exertion or effort; laziness. |
| penumbra |
an indefinite, borderline area. |
| periphrasis |
an indirect or roundabout way of phrasing something; circumlocution. |
| pinchbeck |
false, sham, or counterfeit. |
| quondam |
having been in the past; former. |
| remonstrate |
to say in opposition, protest, or objection. |
| seminal |
of critical importance; essential. |