| agog |
highly excited and full of anticipation. |
| animus |
a feeling or attitude of enmity. |
| arrant |
complete; unmitigated; downright. |
| centripetal |
forced or moving inward toward a center point or axis. |
| disallow |
to refuse to allow or admit; reject. |
| expiation |
the act or the means of making amends, as for a sin or crime. |
| fulminate |
to vehemently denounce or criticize something. |
| ligature |
a band or tie. |
| mendicant |
living on charity; begging. |
| nonplus |
to cause (someone) to be unable to think of what to say, do, or decide; perplex; bewilder. |
| oligarchy |
a government or state in which only a relatively few people or members of a family have real power. |
| opiate |
something that induces relaxation, calm, or stupor. |
| oppugn |
to oppose, contradict, criticize, or call into question. |
| Saturnalia |
an occasion of unrestrained revelry. |
| tort |
in law, any civil rather than criminal harm or injury that violates the implicit duty of each citizen not to harm others, and for which one may bring a civil suit and collect compensation. |