| animus |
a feeling or attitude of enmity. |
| cachet |
prestige. |
| calumny |
a harmful statement, known by the maker to be false. |
| canard |
a deliberately false story or rumor, usually defamatory to someone. |
| deadeye |
an expert shooter. |
| demarcate |
to set apart or separate, as if with boundaries. |
| gadfly |
a persistent critic, especially of established institutions and policies. |
| garble |
to mix up, distort, or confuse (a message, translation, or the like); cause to be disordered or unintelligible. |
| hirsute |
covered with hair or stiff hairs; hairy or shaggy. |
| impromptu |
without advance plan or preparation; spontaneously. |
| incredulous |
not able to believe something. |
| loll |
to hang down loosely; dangle. |
| occlude |
to close or obstruct (a passage or opening, one's vision, or the like). |
| pusillanimous |
shamefully timid; cowardly. |
| tort |
in law, any civil rather than criminal harm or injury that violates the implicit duty of each citizen not to harm others, and for which one may bring a civil suit and collect compensation. |