| amity |
friendly and peaceful relations; good will. |
| animus |
a feeling or attitude of enmity. |
| beatify |
to admire or exalt as superior. |
| cantankerous |
irritable, stubborn, and quarrelsome. |
| coalesce |
to grow together or unite to form a single body or organization; unify; fuse. |
| deter |
to stop or discourage from some action by creating doubt or fear. |
| facetious |
not serious; humorous or frivolous. |
| frangible |
easy to break; breakable; fragile. |
| highbrow |
one who has or pretends to have highly sophisticated intellectual and cultural interests and tastes (often used disparagingly). |
| quadrant |
any of the four parts that result when an area is divided by two lines, real or imaginary, that intersect each other at right angles. |
| raffish |
carelessly unconventional or disreputable, sometimes appealingly so. |
| repose2 |
to put or place (confidence, hope, or the like) in someone or something. |
| reprise |
repetition of a musical phrase or theme in an identical or slightly altered way. |
| risible |
provoking laughter; laughable or funny. |
| sanguine |
having an optimistic temperament or outlook. |