| amity |
friendly and peaceful relations; good will. |
| aplomb |
great self-confidence, composure, or poise. |
| assail |
to attack with vigor or violence; assault. |
| berate |
to reproach or scold severely. |
| calumny |
a harmful statement, known by the maker to be false. |
| conjoin |
to combine for a common purpose. |
| corollary |
a readily drawn conclusion; deduction or inference. |
| deify |
to raise to the rank of a god; consider to be a god. |
| hackneyed |
made trite or commonplace by overuse, as an expression or phrase. |
| inadvertent |
not planned or intended; unintentional. |
| kismet |
destiny, fortune, or fate. |
| maladroit |
not skillful; clumsy; tactless. |
| mésalliance |
marriage with someone of lower social standing than oneself. |
| quondam |
having been in the past; former. |
| syntax |
the word order or pattern of word order in a sentence. |