| amity |
friendly and peaceful relations; good will. |
| apropos |
appropriate; relevant; opportune. |
| corollary |
a readily drawn conclusion; deduction or inference. |
| crass |
lacking in sensitivity or refinement; crude. |
| deign |
to consider some act to be appropriate or in keeping with one's dignity; condescend. |
| gambit |
a tactic or maneuver designed to gain an advantage, especially one that involves some sacrifice on one's part. |
| highbrow |
one who has or pretends to have highly sophisticated intellectual and cultural interests and tastes (often used disparagingly). |
| intransigence |
refusal to alter one's ideas or position in response to the wishes of others. |
| jubilate |
to feel joyful; rejoice; exult. |
| parlance |
manner of speaking or writing, especially word choice; vernacular. |
| pliant |
easily flexed; supple. |
| sagacious |
possessing or characterized by good judgment and common sense; wise. |
| saturnine |
gloomy, sullen, or cynical in temperament or appearance. |
| solecism |
a gross violation of convention in grammar, etiquette, or the like; impropriety. |
| 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. |