| amity |
friendly and peaceful relations; good will. |
| antediluvian |
hopelessly old-fashioned; primitive; outdated. |
| apprise |
to inform (often followed by "of"). |
| arrant |
complete; unmitigated; downright. |
| calumny |
a harmful statement, known by the maker to be false. |
| cognoscente |
someone who has exceptional knowledge in a given area, especially of fashion, literature, or the fine arts; connoisseur. |
| dilatory |
used to cause a delay. |
| facetious |
not serious; humorous or frivolous. |
| frangible |
easy to break; breakable; fragile. |
| jejune |
lacking interest or liveliness; dull. |
| obscurantism |
a deliberate lack of clarity or directness of expression, as in certain styles of art or literature. |
| pastiche |
a work of visual art, music, or literature that consists mostly of materials and techniques borrowed from other works, sometimes done as an exercise to learn the technique of others. |
| penury |
severe poverty; pennilessness. |
| scabrous |
characterized by a rough or scaly surface, as the leaf of a plant. |
| stochastic |
of, or arising from chance or probability. |