| abash |
to cause to feel embarrassed, uneasy, or ashamed. |
| amity |
friendly and peaceful relations; good will. |
| animus |
a feeling or attitude of enmity. |
| austerity |
a tightened or stringent economy, as when there are high taxes, frozen wages, and shortages of consumer goods. |
| cavalier |
carefree and offhand; nonchalant. |
| corporeal |
having to do with a physical body; bodily. |
| Draconian |
(often lower case) harshly cruel or rigorous. |
| germane |
having relevance to a given matter; pertinent; significant. |
| hirsute |
covered with hair or stiff hairs; hairy or shaggy. |
| requite |
to retaliate for; strike back on account of. |
| scion |
an offspring or heir. |
| solecism |
a gross violation of convention in grammar, etiquette, or the like; impropriety. |
| solipsism |
the self-centered habit of interpreting and judging all things exclusively according to one's own concepts of meaning and value. |
| stative |
in grammar, of or designating a category of verbs that express state or condition. |
| tyro |
one who is beginning to learn a business, trade, sport, or the like; novice; neophyte. |