| aberration |
a deviation from what is considered normal or right; irregularity. |
| animus |
a feeling or attitude of enmity. |
| appellation |
a name, title, or other designation. |
| dilatory |
used to cause a delay. |
| dissimulate |
to hide one's true feelings, intentions, or the like by pretense or hypocrisy. |
| expostulate |
to argue earnestly with someone, usually against an intended action; remonstrate. |
| gamut |
the whole extent or range of anything. |
| hirsute |
covered with hair or stiff hairs; hairy or shaggy. |
| impromptu |
without advance plan or preparation; spontaneously. |
| intransigence |
refusal to alter one's ideas or position in response to the wishes of others. |
| reconnaissance |
the act or process of examining an area, especially to gain militarily useful information. |
| reconnoiter |
to go through or over (an area) so as to gain information about it, as for military or engineering purposes. |
| regicide |
the murderer of a king. |
| salacious |
excited by lust; lecherous. |
| solipsism |
the self-centered habit of interpreting and judging all things exclusively according to one's own concepts of meaning and value. |