| accountability |
the state or quality of being responsible for providing an explanation or justification. |
| confidant |
one to whom a secret or secrets are entrusted. |
| credulity |
an inclination to believe or trust, especially without sufficient basis or evidence; gullibility. |
| intimacy |
the condition of being close in friendship or otherwise intimate. |
| invalidate |
to deprive a claim of force or effect by negating its factual or legal basis. |
| litany |
any recital that involves repetition or incantation, especially a long or monotonous account, as of one's troubles. |
| mollify |
to ease or soothe the anger or emotion of; make calmer; appease. |
| mortify |
to subject (someone) to extreme embarrassment, shame, or humiliation. |
| nonchalance |
cool confidence and unconcern; casual indifference. |
| patronize |
to act in an offensively superior manner toward. |
| plummet |
to fall sharply down, especially at high speed; plunge. |
| polemic |
an emphatic statement of a controversial viewpoint, usually criticizing or refuting an existing position. |
| pretext |
a false reason or claim put forward to mask one's true motive or aim. |
| sensual |
related to or providing pleasure from the ways humans perceive stimuli, such as through touch, taste, or smell. |
| spate |
a sudden rush, outpouring, or flood. |