animus |
a feeling or attitude of enmity. |
apropos |
appropriate; relevant; opportune. |
convoluted |
complex; intricate. |
discountenance |
to embarrass or disconcert. |
elide |
to leave out or slur, as a syllable or letter, in pronunciation. |
entreat |
to beg (someone) for something, or to beg (someone) to do something. |
exegesis |
a critical explanation or interpretive analysis, especially of religious texts. |
extirpate |
to get rid of completely, as if by pulling up the roots; root out. |
garble |
to mix up, distort, or confuse (a message, translation, or the like); cause to be disordered or unintelligible. |
indulgent |
gratifying, or being inclined to gratify or yield to others' wishes, especially rather than enforcing discipline or strictness. |
intelligentsia |
the elite class of highly learned people within a society, or those who consider themselves part of such a class. |
penury |
severe poverty; pennilessness. |
rebarbative |
tending to irritate or repel; forbidding or unattractive. |
reprobate |
an evil or lawless person, often beyond hope of redemption. |
scabrous |
characterized by a rough or scaly surface, as the leaf of a plant. |