| animus |
a feeling or attitude of enmity. |
| asperity |
harshness or roughness, especially of tone or manner. |
| descant |
a secondary, usually higher, melody that is played or sung at the same time as the chief melody. |
| fealty |
faithfulness or loyalty. |
| heinous |
extremely wicked or despicable; atrocious. |
| incredulous |
not able to believe something. |
| inculcate |
to cause to accept an idea or value; imbue. |
| lanugo |
fine, soft hair, especially that with which a human fetus or newborn is covered. |
| ostentation |
a showy display to impress others. |
| otiose |
having no purpose or use; unnecessary or futile. |
| periphrasis |
an indirect or roundabout way of phrasing something; circumlocution. |
| pronate |
to turn or rotate (the hand or forearm) so that the palm of the hand faces down or backwards. |
| stately |
dignified. |
| stridulate |
to produce a shrill grating, creaking, or chirping sound by rubbing certain parts of the body together, as some insects do. |
| 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. |