| asperity |
harshness or roughness, especially of tone or manner. |
| benign |
causing little or no harm. |
| cachet |
prestige. |
| deadeye |
an expert shooter. |
| dilatory |
used to cause a delay. |
| forbear |
to keep or abstain from (an action or utterance). |
| highbrow |
one who has or pretends to have highly sophisticated intellectual and cultural interests and tastes (often used disparagingly). |
| hirsute |
covered with hair or stiff hairs; hairy or shaggy. |
| impute |
to ascribe or attribute to a source or cause. |
| lapidary |
an expert on or dealer in gemstones. |
| ostentation |
a showy display to impress others. |
| precursory |
coming before and serving to indicate what will follow; premonitory. |
| reprisal |
injury inflicted in retaliation for injury received, as in war; revenge. |
| schadenfreude |
(often capitalized) pleasure derived from the misfortune of others. |
| transpose |
to exchange the position or order of (two things). |