| animus |
a feeling or attitude of enmity. |
| blatant |
completely obvious or undisguised, sometimes offensively so. |
| crass |
lacking in sensitivity or refinement; crude. |
| exponent |
one that expounds or interprets. |
| flummox |
(informal) to confuse or puzzle. |
| fracas |
a noisy disturbance or quarrel. |
| harbinger |
someone or something that signals or foreshadows a later arrival or occurrence; herald; forerunner. |
| homily |
any discourse offering moral advice or admonitions. |
| ineluctable |
impossible to be avoided; inescapable. |
| penury |
severe poverty; pennilessness. |
| pungent |
sharp and strong in taste or smell. |
| reconnoiter |
to go through or over (an area) so as to gain information about it, as for military or engineering purposes. |
| sepsis |
infection, especially by pus-forming bacteria in the blood or tissues. |
| somatic |
of or pertaining to the body itself; corporeal. |
| spurn |
to reject, refuse, or treat with scorn; disdain; despise. |