| abash |
to cause to feel embarrassed, uneasy, or ashamed. |
| animus |
a feeling or attitude of enmity. |
| avow |
to assert or affirm. |
| bellicose |
easily incited to quarrel or fight; belligerent. |
| coalesce |
to grow together or unite to form a single body or organization; unify; fuse. |
| coeval |
coinciding in time of origin or existence; contemporary. |
| despoil |
to forcefully take belongings or goods from; plunder. |
| glean |
to gather or discover (facts, information, or the like) a little at a time. |
| gullible |
believing almost anything; easily tricked. |
| lanugo |
fine, soft hair, especially that with which a human fetus or newborn is covered. |
| misanthrope |
someone who hates or distrusts humanity. |
| naturalism |
in literature, a method of depicting life that reflects a philosophy of determinism. |
| pungency |
sharpness or bite in taste or smell. |
| reprisal |
injury inflicted in retaliation for injury received, as in war; revenge. |
| symbiosis |
a close association, usually a mutually beneficial relationship, between two dissimilar organisms. |