amity |
friendly and peaceful relations; good will. |
austerity |
a tightened or stringent economy, as when there are high taxes, frozen wages, and shortages of consumer goods. |
calumny |
a harmful statement, known by the maker to be false. |
discomfit |
to upset or confuse. |
epigraph |
a pertinent quotation or motto, especially found at the beginning of a literary work or of a chapter. |
expostulate |
to argue earnestly with someone, usually against an intended action; remonstrate. |
hirsute |
covered with hair or stiff hairs; hairy or shaggy. |
jejune |
lacking interest or liveliness; dull. |
panegyric |
a formal speech or piece of writing devoted to publicly praising a person or thing. |
periphrasis |
an indirect or roundabout way of phrasing something; circumlocution. |
raffish |
carelessly unconventional or disreputable, sometimes appealingly so. |
topography |
the shape of the earth's surface across an area or region. The topography of an area includes the size and location of hills and dips in the land. |
trabeated |
using horizontal beams or lintels as supports instead of arches. |
triage |
a system of determining priority of medical treatment, on the basis of need, chances of survival, and the like, to victims on a battlefield or in a hospital emergency ward. |
unadulterated |
unmixed with or undiluted by additives or extraneous elements; pure; complete. |