| appease |
to cause to become calmer by meeting demands. |
| arraign |
to bring before a court of law to respond to a charge or indictment. |
| complaisance |
willingness to please. |
| decorum |
properness of behavior, manner, appearance, or the like; dignity; propriety. |
| dispassionate |
without strong feeling or bias; calm; impartial. |
| imponderable |
unable to be evaluated or calculated accurately. |
| posterior |
located behind or toward the back of something. |
| pundit |
an authoritative, or purportedly authoritative, commentator or critic. |
| refract |
to bend (rays or waves of light, heat, sound, or the like) in passing (them) obliquely from one medium into another which transmits them at a different speed. |
| ruddy |
reddish; rosy. |
| seclusion |
the act of isolating or hiding away, or the condition of being isolated in this way. |
| simile |
a figure of speech in which two different things are compared by using the words "like" or "as." "March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb" is an example of a simile. |
| sporadic |
occurring irregularly or in a thinly scattered manner in time or space. |
| tawdry |
falsely showy; cheap and gaudy. |
| wrangle |
to win or obtain by quarreling. |