| bellicose |
easily incited to quarrel or fight; belligerent. |
| comity |
mutual courtesy and respectful treatment among people or nations. |
| cravat |
a scarf or band of cloth tied loosely about the neck. |
| curmudgeon |
an irritable or ill-tempered person. |
| determinism |
the belief or teaching that every effect, including human thoughts and actions, is completely and predictably brought about by preceding causes and that, therefore, free will does not exist. |
| disheveled |
not neat; messy. |
| expiation |
the act or the means of making amends, as for a sin or crime. |
| innocuous |
not capable of causing damage; harmless. |
| malinger |
to pretend illness or injury, especially in order to be excused from duty or work. |
| peripatetic |
walking or traveling around; going from place to place; itinerant. |
| prerogative |
an exclusive right or privilege derived from one's office, position, age, citizenship, birth, or the like. |
| quondam |
having been in the past; former. |
| revetment |
a facing of stone, masonry, or the like to support or protect a wall, embankment, or mound of earth. |
| Sabbatarian |
one who observes the Sabbath on Saturday, as Jews and certain Christians. |
| splenetic |
ill-tempered or spiteful. |