| amity |
friendly and peaceful relations; good will. |
| appurtenance |
(plural) equipment or instruments used for a given purpose; gear. |
| benign |
causing little or no harm. |
| chary |
not dispensing freely. |
| diatribe |
a bitter, abusive attack in speech or writing. |
| elide |
to leave out or slur, as a syllable or letter, in pronunciation. |
| epistemology |
the branch of philosophy dealing with the origin, nature, and limits of human knowledge. |
| exponent |
one that expounds or interprets. |
| extrinsic |
not inherent or essential; extraneous. |
| hagiography |
an admiring and uncritical biography of anyone. |
| louche |
of questionable decency, morality, or taste; shady; disreputable. |
| lugubrious |
sad or mournful, especially in an exaggerated way; gloomy. |
| neophyte |
a beginner or novice at any activity. |
| Sabbatarian |
one who observes the Sabbath on Saturday, as Jews and certain Christians. |
| stridulate |
to produce a shrill grating, creaking, or chirping sound by rubbing certain parts of the body together, as some insects do. |