| amity |
friendly and peaceful relations; good will. |
| banal |
lacking originality or liveliness; disappointingly ordinary; commonplace; trite. |
| brash |
rudely self-assertive; bold; impudent. |
| coalesce |
to grow together or unite to form a single body or organization; unify; fuse. |
| flak |
(informal) irritating opposition, criticism, or dissent. |
| foment |
to encourage the development of; instigate or foster. |
| invidious |
tending to arouse feelings of resentment or animosity, especially because of a slight; offensive or discriminatory. |
| lupine2 |
fierce; greedy. |
| mésalliance |
marriage with someone of lower social standing than oneself. |
| mirabile dictu |
(Latin) wonderful to say or relate. |
| naturalism |
in literature, a method of depicting life that reflects a philosophy of determinism. |
| oblique |
not direct or straightforward in intent, means, or achievement; indirect or devious. |
| parlance |
manner of speaking or writing, especially word choice; vernacular. |
| shunt |
to turn or move aside or out of the way; divert. |
| symbiosis |
a close association, usually a mutually beneficial relationship, between two dissimilar organisms. |