adamantine |
firmly decided or fixed; unyielding. |
aplomb |
great self-confidence, composure, or poise. |
banal |
lacking originality or liveliness; disappointingly ordinary; commonplace; trite. |
boorish |
rude; ill-mannered; crude. |
castellated |
constructed with turrets and battlements like a castle. |
foment |
to encourage the development of; instigate or foster. |
frangible |
easy to break; breakable; fragile. |
gossamer |
delicately fine, gauzelike, or filmy. |
idiosyncrasy |
a characteristic of temperament, habit, or physical structure particular to a given individual or group; peculiarity. |
irrefragable |
impossible to refute or dispute; undeniable. |
lanugo |
fine, soft hair, especially that with which a human fetus or newborn is covered. |
loll |
to hang down loosely; dangle. |
maunder |
to speak in an aimless or foolish way; babble. |
obscurantism |
a deliberate lack of clarity or directness of expression, as in certain styles of art or literature. |
stochastic |
of, or arising from chance or probability. |