| animus |
a feeling or attitude of enmity. |
| apposite |
fitting; pertinent; appropriate. |
| askance |
with distrust or suspicion. |
| benign |
causing little or no harm. |
| calumny |
a harmful statement, known by the maker to be false. |
| cynosure |
a thing or person that is the center of attention and admiration. |
| entreat |
to beg for something, or to do something. |
| facetious |
not serious; humorous or frivolous. |
| highbrow |
one who has or pretends to have highly sophisticated intellectual and cultural interests and tastes (often used disparagingly). |
| hypocrisy |
the practice or an instance of stating or pretending to hold beliefs or principles that one does not actually live by; insincerity. |
| mendicant |
living on charity; begging. |
| neophyte |
a beginner or novice at any activity. |
| penury |
severe poverty; pennilessness. |
| peroration |
the concluding part of a speech in which there is a summing up of the principal points. |
| triage |
a system of determining priority of medical treatment, on the basis of need, chances of survival, and the like, to victims on a battlefield or in a hospital emergency ward. |